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C.W. Bast
(1843 - 1886)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 (13?) year old living with his brother George and 4 other siblings next door to their parents in Pottsville, PA. Giving his age as 21 (he was probably 18), he enlisted there on 12 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 12 October and returned to his Company 25 December 1862. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 May 1863 and Sergeant on 24 March 1864. He mustered out with his Company on 21 October 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a blacksmith for a coal company in Williams Township, Dauphin County, PA.
His death notice in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 22 October 1886 says "his death resulted from a wound in the arm received in the war of the rebellion."
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His wound and Frederick hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Private in Company C, 16th Pennsylvania. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His photograph from one at the Army Heritage & Education Center, this copy kindly provided by David Ward.
He married Amanda Stahl (1843-1929) in May 1866 and they had 3 children.
Birth
02/22/1843; Norwegian Township, Schuylkill County, PA
Death
10/18/1886; Williamstown, PA; burial in Seyberts/Old Evanelical Cemetery, Williamstown, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15333]
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 30887]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #45 [AotW citation 30888]