Thaddeus W. Wright

In 1860 he was an unmarried 26 year old farm worker living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 3 slaves on their farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County on 2 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 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 captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1880 he was farming his own place at Rockford in Coosa County, but in 1900 was farming at Benson in Chilton County, AL. He had retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eusibia Elvira Hutto (1838-1918) in August 1866 and they had 4 sons.

06/27/1833; Chambers County, AL

10/11/1917; Birmingham, AL; burial in Isabella Church Cemetery, Chilton County, AL