Wright, younger brother of Luther Wright '59, joined Co. B of the 9th VA Cavalry on September 19, 1862 as a private. He was wounded in the right hip on July 3, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg with the ball lodged near his bladder. He was still hospitalized in Richmond, VA on January 1, 1864 due to the injury and listed as "too sick to move." In March 1864 he was released from the hospital and granted a furlough. He did not return to his regiment until late spring of 1864. He took the Oath of Allegiance in Ashland, VA on April 25, 1865.
A native of Caroline County, VA, he had returned there by 1880 and is listed as a farmer in the censuses through 1910. Wright died August 26, 1911.
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