Francis J. Arrighi

In 1860 he was a 22 year old clerk in his father Dominic's fruit store, living with his parents and siblings at Natchez in Adams County, MS. He enlisted there on 23 April 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company D, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861. He was elected First Lieutenant on 26 April 1862. He was absent, sick in August and rejoined his Company in Maryland on 9 September 1862.

He was wounded in the head and possibly captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was on wounded furlough and returned to duty in April 1863, was promoted to Captain by June, and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left arm/shoulder at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and furloughed home for 30 days. He was captured at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Fort Delaware, where he took an oath of allegiance and was released on 16 June 1865.

He was elected City Assessor and Tax Collector in 1875 and was in that office to the year of his death 31 years later.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1880, and his obituary in the Natchez Democrat of 24 April 1906. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mathilda Hughes (1844-1884) in November 1866 and they had 7 children.

03/15/1838; Natchez, MS

04/22/1906; Hot Springs, AR; burial in Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, MS