Polk-Delaware County IA Archives Obituaries.....Wright, Melville November 4, 1868
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Daily Iowa State Register
Daily Iowa State Register, November 14, 1868 

THE LATE CAPTAIN MELVILLE C. WRIGHT 

Capt. Melville C. Wright of Des Moines, died of lung fever, November 4, 1868, 
at Bryan City, Wyoming Territory. Bryan City is on the Union Pacific Railroad. 
Many od our readers are aware that General Williamson has assumed the duties 
of Land Agent for the U. P. R. R., and had associated with him in the 
business, Capt. Wright. It is only a few months since they left our city to 
enter into the discharge of their duties. At the time of the death of Capt. 
Wright, Gen. Williamson was at some distance west of Bryan City on the line of 
the U. P. R. R. on business of the company. John C. Tiernan Esq., formerly of 
this city, was at Bryan City and assures us that every attention that was 
possible to give was rendered to Capt. Wright in his last illness. 

Capt. Wright, at the breaking out of the late rebellion, enlisted at the age 
of 19, from Delhi, in Delaware County, in Company I, 1st Iowa Infantry. He 
enlisted April 23rd, 1861 and was mustered into U. S. service, May 11, 1861. 
After the disbandment of the 1st Iowa Infantry, he, with others, raised the 3d 
Iowa Battery. He enlisted Aug. 8, 1861, was commissioned as Junior 1st Lt., 
April 16, 1861, mustered into the United States service, Sept. 23, 1861; was 
promoted to Senior 1st Lt., Sept. 4, 1862, to Capt. Oct. 4, 1864, and left the 
service Jan. 5, 1865. At the Battle of Pea Ridge he was wounded in the arm and 
back. Gen. Vandever, then Col. of the 9th Iowa Infantry, commanded the 2d 
Brigade, 4th Division. In his report of the battle, after referring to the 
fact that the 3d Battery, then called the Dubuque battery, under Capt. Hayden, 
was attached to the 9th Iowa Infantry, Gen. Vandever says: "The Captain, 
together with Lts. McClure, Wright and Bradley, were especially cool and firm, 
and every man was prompt and ready in the performance of the most arduous 
duty." After the war Capt. Wright studied law, and on the graduation of the 
class of the Iowa Law School, in 1866, distinguished himself with highest 
honors. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws and then was admitted to 
practice in the courts of the state. 

Capt. Wright was the son of Hon. James Wright, late Secretary of State. Capt. 
Wright was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, Nov. 1, 1842, and was at the 
time of his death in the 27th year of his age. 




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