Vivian Eakes Hull
17th Alabama
Mon Jan 1 08:39:00 2001


Do you know the date that your grandfather was captured at Peachtree? My great grandfather's records say he was fighting in the 17th Alabama and he died of gunshot and amputation "near Georgia" on August 4, 1864. I am trying to determine if that was likely the battle at Peachtree? and where he might have been buried.
He was William Banister. His son David BANISTER was captured at Kennesaw Mtn. and spent the remainder of the war at Camp Morton. Interestingly David Banister wound up many years later in Tennessee and I have a number of EDDINS relatives in Wilson County TN where he was.. I wonder if there is any connection to your Eddins??

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