Civil War Vet Dies
Coroner John Green was called to Scipio Saturday morning to view the body of William Banister, an old soldier who was found dead in bed. The coroner decided death was due to heart failure.
The deceased had been in poor health for several years but was in his usual condition when he retired Friday night. He was 65 years of age and leaves a wife and five grown children.
The deceased was an honored soldier of the Civil War and fought valiantly on the union side and took part in many battles.
He is one of the survivors of a thrilling episode on the Mississippi River during the war. He was one of a detail doing duty on one of the river steamboats. The craft became disabled and no fire could be kept in any part of the vessel. The weather turned extremely cold on New Year's Day and those in charge of the boat went to a little island for shelter and for the purpose of starting a fire.
David Dean of Rock Creek Township, Bartholomew County, was one of the party and he and William Tyler, of Scipio, froze to death that night. William Banister was badly frozen but he recovered.
The funeral was held Sunday from the Presbyterian Church in Scipio.
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William Bannister was a member of Co. G, 52 Indiana Infantry. He was captured during the Civil War and held prisoner at Camp Sumter, the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, GA. At the end of the war he was released and sent to Vicksburg, MS for transport back to Indiana. He was placed aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana on April 24, 1865 and started north with about 2,000 other recently released prisoners-of-war. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the boilers of the Sultana exploded when the boat was seven miles north of Memphis, TN. William Bannister reported that he was thrown into the river by the blast and floated about three miles down river before reaching the river bank and being rescued. He died at age sixty-seven. (Source: Bannister Obituary in The Indianapolis News, Aug. 10, 1910, pg. 5)
Coroner John Green was called to Scipio Saturday morning to view the body of William Banister, an old soldier who was found dead in bed. The coroner decided death was due to heart failure.
The deceased had been in poor health for several years but was in his usual condition when he retired Friday night. He was 65 years of age and leaves a wife and five grown children.
The deceased was an honored soldier of the Civil War and fought valiantly on the union side and took part in many battles.
He is one of the survivors of a thrilling episode on the Mississippi River during the war. He was one of a detail doing duty on one of the river steamboats. The craft became disabled and no fire could be kept in any part of the vessel. The weather turned extremely cold on New Year's Day and those in charge of the boat went to a little island for shelter and for the purpose of starting a fire.
David Dean of Rock Creek Township, Bartholomew County, was one of the party and he and William Tyler, of Scipio, froze to death that night. William Banister was badly frozen but he recovered.
The funeral was held Sunday from the Presbyterian Church in Scipio.
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William Bannister was a member of Co. G, 52 Indiana Infantry. He was captured during the Civil War and held prisoner at Camp Sumter, the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, GA. At the end of the war he was released and sent to Vicksburg, MS for transport back to Indiana. He was placed aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana on April 24, 1865 and started north with about 2,000 other recently released prisoners-of-war. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the boilers of the Sultana exploded when the boat was seven miles north of Memphis, TN. William Bannister reported that he was thrown into the river by the blast and floated about three miles down river before reaching the river bank and being rescued. He died at age sixty-seven. (Source: Bannister Obituary in The Indianapolis News, Aug. 10, 1910, pg. 5)
Civil War Vet Dies
Coroner John Green was called to Scipio Saturday morning to view the body of William Banister, an old soldier who was found dead in bed. The coroner decided death was due to heart failure.
The deceased had been in poor health for several years but was in his usual condition when he retired Friday night. He was 65 years of age and leaves a wife and five grown children.
The deceased was an honored soldier of the Civil War and fought valiantly on the union side and took part in many battles.
He is one of the survivors of a thrilling episode on the Mississippi River during the war. He was one of a detail doing duty on one of the river steamboats. The craft became disabled and no fire could be kept in any part of the vessel. The weather turned extremely cold on New Year's Day and those in charge of the boat went to a little island for shelter and for the purpose of starting a fire.
David Dean of Rock Creek Township, Bartholomew County, was one of the party and he and William Tyler, of Scipio, froze to death that night. William Banister was badly frozen but he recovered.
The funeral was held Sunday from the Presbyterian Church in Scipio.
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William Bannister was a member of Co. G, 52 Indiana Infantry. He was captured during the Civil War and held prisoner at Camp Sumter, the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, GA. At the end of the war he was released and sent to Vicksburg, MS for transport back to Indiana. He was placed aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana on April 24, 1865 and started north with about 2,000 other recently released prisoners-of-war. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the boilers of the Sultana exploded when the boat was seven miles north of Memphis, TN. William Bannister reported that he was thrown into the river by the blast and floated about three miles down river before reaching the river bank and being rescued. He died at age sixty-seven. (Source: Bannister Obituary in The Indianapolis News, Aug. 10, 1910, pg. 5)
Coroner John Green was called to Scipio Saturday morning to view the body of William Banister, an old soldier who was found dead in bed. The coroner decided death was due to heart failure.
The deceased had been in poor health for several years but was in his usual condition when he retired Friday night. He was 65 years of age and leaves a wife and five grown children.
The deceased was an honored soldier of the Civil War and fought valiantly on the union side and took part in many battles.
He is one of the survivors of a thrilling episode on the Mississippi River during the war. He was one of a detail doing duty on one of the river steamboats. The craft became disabled and no fire could be kept in any part of the vessel. The weather turned extremely cold on New Year's Day and those in charge of the boat went to a little island for shelter and for the purpose of starting a fire.
David Dean of Rock Creek Township, Bartholomew County, was one of the party and he and William Tyler, of Scipio, froze to death that night. William Banister was badly frozen but he recovered.
The funeral was held Sunday from the Presbyterian Church in Scipio.
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William Bannister was a member of Co. G, 52 Indiana Infantry. He was captured during the Civil War and held prisoner at Camp Sumter, the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, GA. At the end of the war he was released and sent to Vicksburg, MS for transport back to Indiana. He was placed aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana on April 24, 1865 and started north with about 2,000 other recently released prisoners-of-war. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, the boilers of the Sultana exploded when the boat was seven miles north of Memphis, TN. William Bannister reported that he was thrown into the river by the blast and floated about three miles down river before reaching the river bank and being rescued. He died at age sixty-seven. (Source: Bannister Obituary in The Indianapolis News, Aug. 10, 1910, pg. 5)
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