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Col Dexter Russell Wright

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Col Dexter Russell Wright Veteran

Birth
Rockingham, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Death
23 Jul 1886 (aged 65)
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section: Western Avenue, Plot: 92, Grave: 4 
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Civil War Union Army Officer. Colonel of the 15th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

The 15th Infantry was mustered at New Haven in August, 1862, and left for Washington with 1,022 officers and men under Colonel Dexter R. Wright of Meriden, who resigned the following February on account of disability and was succeeded in April by Colonel Charles L. Upham also of Meriden. The regiment's first engagement was at Fredericksburg in December, 1862, where ten men were lost...
—The Meriden Weekly Republican (Meriden, Connecticut), Thursday, August 27, 1908, p. 4
Civil War Union Army Officer. Colonel of the 15th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

The 15th Infantry was mustered at New Haven in August, 1862, and left for Washington with 1,022 officers and men under Colonel Dexter R. Wright of Meriden, who resigned the following February on account of disability and was succeeded in April by Colonel Charles L. Upham also of Meriden. The regiment's first engagement was at Fredericksburg in December, 1862, where ten men were lost...
—The Meriden Weekly Republican (Meriden, Connecticut), Thursday, August 27, 1908, p. 4


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