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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Henry Wright

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to Connecticut from Ohio with his family by 1850 and was an 18 year old clerk in Haddam, CT in 1860. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 8 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was held at Libby Prison, Richmond, VA then paroled on 6 October. He was sent to the Parole Camp at Annapolis, MD but died there of disease on 16 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/26/1841; Oberlin, OH

Death

10/16/1862; Annapolis, MD; burial in Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 633 [AotW citation 27214]

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