The outpost, named Drum Barracks, or Camp Drum (1861–1871), served as headquarters for the Union's Southwestern command for the state of California and territory of Arizona.
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Banning was an avowed Unionist and was friends with Winfield Scott Hancock when Hancock was stationed in Los Angeles.
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Banning was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the seventh of 11 children to John Alford Banning (1790–1851) and Elizabeth Lowber (1792–1861).
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The land purchase was incorporated as Wilmington, after Banning's Delaware birthplace, and his facility became known as Banning's Landing.
Anne Ophelia Smith married Hancock Banning (1865–1925) son of Phineas Banning in 1890.
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