Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Wrights or search for Wrights in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Vanity Fair's account of the battle of Newbern. (search)
and found himself surrounded by a regiment of Mississippi rip- snorters. I immediately rode for ward, under a perfect storm of shot and shell, and raising myself in my stirrups, made faces at the foe. Terrified, they dropped their arms and fled. The lieutenant and I remained uninjured, laden with scalps and trophies. I captured several handsome flags. One is a large silk banner, with the following characteristic inscription, in white letters, white ground: "Strikes for Southern Wrights and Olmitey truth." Another, which I took with my own hands after wringing the color sergeant's neck, is the guidance of a company called Col. Appel's Sharp-shooters. It bears this inscription, which has a pomo- air: "APPEALSsound in the Gores." "Cause" is doubtless the word intended; but I observe that Southern - graphy is peculiar. One troop of rebel horse is reported to have carried a black color, but I think this is an error. At least I saw but one cavalry regiment a