Joseph W. Wright
Joseph W. Wright (b. ca. 1834) was an Alamance County, North Carolina tenant farmer. He enlisted as a private in Co. G, 44th North Carolina Infantry on February 28, 1862. His service records indicate that he was hospitalized in Richmond for a gunshot wound to the shoulder on May 15, 1864 and returned to duty before November 1, 1864. Wright was captured in the fighting south of Petersburg on April 2, 1865, confined at Hart’s Island in New York Harbor, and released on June 17, 1865. At the time of the 1870 Census, Joseph Wright and his wife, Susan (b. ca. 1832), were still living in Alamance County.
Authored Letters
ID | Letter | Date | Author | Recipient | From | To |
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12257 | Wright1 | April 29, 1863 | Joseph W. Wright | Susan Wright | Kinston, NC | Alamance County, NC |