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(c. 1843 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, a machinist from Balinusville, NY, he enlisted in Scranton, PA on 9 August 1862 and mustered in Harrisburg on 16 August as a Private in Company I of the 132nd Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
In action at the Sunken Road at Antietam on 17 September 1862,
Poor young West sat on the crest of the hill and fired 40 rounds when he fell wounded through the bowels. He was brave even to rashness and lived about 15 hours.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 The battle quote above from a letter Captain Archibald wrote home, posted online by Dan Masters. His memorial is on Findagrave; he may have been reinterred in the National Cemetery after the war as an unknown, but he is not listed among those buried there by name.
Birth
c. 1843 in NY
Death
09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11403]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 34654]