Job S. Driggs

Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Glendale, he enlisted in Company I, 6th Wisconsin Infantry on 10 May 1861. Promoted to Corporal and Sergeant.

In the Antietam Campaign:
Detached for service with Battery B, 4th US Artillery from 22 September 1862 to February 1864.

The remainder of the War:
Wounded in action in the Wilderness, VA (May 1864). Appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Company H, 48th Wisconsin Infantry on 24 February 1865.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1.

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 528 - 530 [AotW citation 10426]

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