. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, DURISC; THE May 29-June 2, 1S95. BIOGRAPHIC: Marcus Joseph Wrielit was born at Purdy. June 5, 1S31. Educated in common school and the academy at Purdy. Clerkof the Common Law and Cliancery Court of Mempliis for eight years before the war. Lieutenent-colonel One Hundredand Fifty-fourth ( regiment infantry Tennessee voluntetrs, C. S. A., April 4, 1S61; assistant adjutant-general,siaff of Gen. H. F. Cheatham, early 1S62; brigadier-general, P. A. C. S
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. MARCUS J. WRIGHT, DURISC; THE May 29-June 2, 1S95. BIOGRAPHIC: Marcus Joseph Wrielit was born at Purdy. June 5, 1S31. Educated in common school and the academy at Purdy. Clerkof the Common Law and Cliancery Court of Mempliis for eight years before the war. Lieutenent-colonel One Hundredand Fifty-fourth ( regiment infantry Tennessee voluntetrs, C. S. A., April 4, 1S61; assistant adjutant-general,siaff of Gen. H. F. Cheatham, early 1S62; brigadier-general, P. A. C. December 13, 1862. Commanded regiment in battles of Belmont and Shiloh and brigade in battles of Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge; staffofficer at surrender of Munifordsville, and battle of Perryville. Ky., commanded the post and district of Atlanta, district ofwest Tennessee and north Mississippi, and engaged in all the battles of the Army of the Tennessee, except during theAtlanta campaign when he was serving in lower Georgia. Sheriff of Shelby county, Tenn., for two years after the war. Agent of the War Department. U. S., for the co
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