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Federal (USV)

Private

Pope G. Briggs

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Newport, he enlisted in Company B, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 9 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & 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. 543 - 546  [AotW citation 10540]