Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Wright, Owen T. 1842 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   OWEN T. WRIGHT, whose birth occurred in Kentucky in 1842, is one of three
surviving children in a family of four born to the marriage of Rev. Abraham and
Ellen (Gardner) Wright, which was consummated in 1841. At eleven years of age,
he was cast upon the world to battle for himself, and with but few exceptions
has been engaged in farming. June 7, 1861, he became a private in Company D,
Fourteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and at the Wilderness was captured, and
for a time was incarcerated in Andersonville and Florence Prisons. While being
transferred in box-cars from one prison to another, he and companions managed to
secure a crowbar, tore up the flooring of the car, so that when the train
stopped for water they made their escape into the swamp. For four days they
traveled through the swamps, and then Mr. Wright was stricken down with a
malignant fever. When their pursuers were about to discover their hiding place,
Mr. Wright was moved in the night to a house, but here left, and was recaptured,
taken to Lumberton, N. C., where he was left to die or recover as the case might
be. Shortly after this, Sherman's advance cavalry discovered him, removed him to
the federal lines, from here to Goldsboro, then to the coast, and from thence to
Fortress Monroe. Mr. Wright was a fearless and valued soldier, and was twice
promoted for bravery, once by his Captain. At the battle of Fredricksburg, after
the color-bearer and guards had been shot down, Mr. Wright seized the emblem of
liberty and bore it aloft through a leaden hailstorm. Since the war, he has
resided in Greene County, where he is widely known and respected. He is a member
of the F. & A. M., a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. In 1866, the marriage of Owen T. Wright and Miss Julia A.
O'Donald was solemnized, and to them these children have been born: Florence J.,
Cora A., Nancy E., Bertha F. and one deceased.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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