Alexander Alfred Wright

In 1860 he was an unmarried 16 year old farmer living with his parents and 7 siblings on their small farm at Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and furloughed home on 30 August 1863. He was wounded again, at Davis' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 30 September 1864. He was paroled at Montgomery, AL on 19 May 1865.

He married in Clark County, AR in December 1870 and by 1880 was a farmer in Hot Spring County, AR. In 1900 he was farming at Amity, Clark County, AR and had retired there by 1910. In 1920 he was living with his son John on his farm in Choctaw County, OK.

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, also as Alfred Alexander Wright, and the US Census of 1860 and 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as A.A. Wright.

He married Nancy Elizabeth Jones (1854-1920) in December 1870 and they had 10 children.

10/16/1844; Tallapoosa County, AL

1920; burial in Spencerville Cemetery, Spencerville, OK