Joseph Wright
Name: Joseph Wright
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 28th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/08/1864
Company: B
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Sergeant
Notes:
Born in Louisiana; Enlisted as a substitute for Thos. E Zimmerman at the age of 19 at Frederick; Appointed to Sergeant 8/29/1864; Worked as a Stretcher Bearer 9/1/1864; Discharged on Surgeon's Certificate of Disability on 10/13/1864 as a result of a double inguinal hernia sustained while lifting a log in the line of duty
Source(s):
Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line].
