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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elijah West

(c. 1840 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old at West Springs in the Union District, SC. He enlisted there on 29 March 1862, and mustered in Charleston, SC on 3 May as a Private in Company H, First South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, bruised by a gunshot to his groin.

The rest of the War

He was back with his company by March 1863 but died of disease at Morristown, TN on 10 January 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in SC

Death

01/10/1864; Morristown, TN

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31977]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 253 [AotW citation 31978]

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