Westley O. Monday

Age 35, he enlisted in Ripley in February 1862 as Private, Company B, 2nd Mississippi Infantry.

He was accidentally wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was hospitalized and returned to duty. He was captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July 1863 and sent to Point Lookout, MD where he was paroled on 15 November 1864. He was sent to Venus Point on the Savannah River for exchange with no further record.

His service from a casualty list/roster for the Campaign provided by Michael Brasher, from his research in Compiled Service Records, Company rolls, and other period sources. Enlistment detail from notes and rosters accompanying the diary of John H. Buchanan transcribed by Dr. Larry and Jo Anne Ketchum Mardis, online courtesy of the Tippah County Historical and Genealogical Society. He's seen there as W.C. Munday.

c. 1827