Joel D. Wright
Name: Joel D. Wright
Affiliation: Confederate
Unit: 2nd MD Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 10/11/1862
Company: F
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Resided in New Market, Frederick in 1860; Enlisted in Winchester, VA; Present 2/29-3/31/1864, 9-10/1864, and 1-2/1865; Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, VA on 4/9/1865; Took Oath of Allegiance on 4/19/1865, Headed to Frederick County, MD; Died on 10/11/1881; Buried Linganore Methodist Church Cemetery, Unionville, MD
Source(s):
Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2003), 550; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 310; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 313; 1860 Census, HeritageQuest
