Job Jackson

He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861 at Anderson in Grimes County. He was slightly wounded at Manassas, VA on 30 August 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the right leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862; his leg was amputated, he was left behind in a field hospital, and was captured on the 19th.

He was admitted to US Amy General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 25 November. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 27 December and on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in hospitals in Richmond, VA by 29 October, furloughed on 20 November 1862, and back in Richmond in December. He was furloughed home on 26 December 1862 "disabled for life." He was in the CSA General Hospital in Mobile, AL in March and April 1863 and again in Richmond. Giving his residence as Mobile, AL he was furloughed again on 31 October. He was in Ross Hospital in Mobile in July 1864 and again from December 1864 into January 1865. He never did return to his Company and was paroled at Baton Rouge, LA on 6 June 1865.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from An Early History of Grimes County [PDF] () and family genealogists.

He died unmarried. His brother Isaac Jackson, Jr. (b. 1819) also served in Company G until discharged on 23 March 1862.

1821