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M. D. West (Quartermaster-general of Kentucky in 1861)

b. 1816-03-20 d. 1866-02-24

Kentucky soldier and prison inspector. Quartermaster general of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 1859 to October 1861. Commissioned as a prison inspector by Governor Magoffin on October 30, 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky , vol. 1 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 91, 96.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859,” (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 288.

"Beriah Magoffin, Executive Journal, Commission, M. D. West," November 19, 1861, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's official correspondence file, executive journal, 1859-1862, MG EJ-261, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, KYR-0001-025-0266.

"Major M. D. West," _The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.), March 1, 1866.

Find A Grave, "M. D. West (1816-1866)," Memorial #60293665, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60293665/m-d-west (accessed January 30, 2018).

Citation

West, M. D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214735 (November 12, 2026).

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