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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Job S. Driggs

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

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

On the Campaign

Detached for service with Battery B, 4th US Artillery from 22 September 1862 to February 1864.

The rest 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 & 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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