Crafts James Wright served as the colonel of the 13th Missouri Infantry, effective August 3rd, 1861. He was nominated as a brigadier general on May 22nd, 1862, but the nomination was tabled by the U.S. Senate and Wright remained a colonel. The 13th Missouri changed its designation to the 22nd Ohio on July 7th, 1862. Wright would go on to command a brigade in the Army of West Tennessee. U.S. Grant would endorse a recommendation for Wright's discharge on August 10th, 1862 for insubordination. Grant will write "From the day Col. Wright first reported to me for duty, to the present time, he has been the cause of more complaints from his immediate commanders than any six officers of this command. He has constantly raised the question of rank with those immediately over him...and he is constantly raising points and occupying the time of his superior officers with a correspondence, useless to the service, and to some extent insubordinate." An examination board recommended that he be discharged on account of physical disability having slept in the rain and mud the night of April 6th at Shiloh.
Wright was born on July 13th, 1808 in Troy, New York. He graduated from West Point, Class of 1828. He was a lawyer, newspaper editor, and a journalist. He resided in Glendale, a Cincinnati suburb, before the war, and lived in Chicago 1875-83. He died on July 22nd, 1883 in Chicago, and is buried in Section 84, Lot 7.This concludes the Colonels at Spring Grove series of posts.
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