Daniel West
Daniel West was born around 1822 in Maine. He married Susan W. Rounds on December 17, 1854, and their daughter Jenny was born on September 1, 1855. They lived in Bangor, Maine, and West worked as a ferryman. By 1860, he owned $150 of personal property. He strongly supported the Union war effort, and he joined a Union Club in Bangor in the fall of 1861.
He enlisted in the Union army on October 3, 1861, and he mustered in as a corporal in Company K of the 11th Maine Infantry on November 2, 1861. The regiment’s colonel later remembered him as a “good soldier – one of the best.” He took part in the Peninsula Campaign, and he fell ill during the spring of 1862. He died of “sickness induced by exhaustion” in Yorktown, Virginia, on June 5, 1862.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (2400) | West, Daniel | 1822 | 1862-06-05 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Corporal
- Rank out: Corporal
- Rank highest: Corporal
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (3337) [writer] ~ Daniel West to Susan W. West, 2 February 1862
People - Records: 1
- (2401) West, Susan W. is the [wife of] (2400) West, Daniel
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (307) [enlisted] [K] ~ 11th Maine Infantry
SOURCES
1860 United States Federal Census; Susan West Pension Record, available from Fold3.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, 3 September 1861 and 13 September 1862.
