Samuel P. Wright was a civil war soldier from Otterbein College. He was known to be one of the hundred day's men. He was in the 133rd infantry and the tasks that were assigned during this short term were completed successfully during the one hundred-day term. Samuel Wright was born on March 14, 1843. It is unknown the exact location but it was in Clinton Township in Franklin County. He entered Otterbein College in 1863 to attend the preparatory school until 1864 when he enrolled into the Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
    Samuel Wright enrolled in the service on May 2, 1864, and placed into the 133rd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This regiment was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio on May 6, 1864 to serve for one hundred days. It was composed by the consolidation of the fifty-eighth Battalions of the Ohio National Guard, from Hancock County, the third regiment of Ohio National Guard, and the seventy-sixth Battalions of the Ohio National Guard of Franklin County.¹
    The overall assignment of this regiment was to destroy the railroad in Richmond and Petersburg and repair the telegraph lines at Fort Powhatan. They succeeded in burning and bending the rails for miles while holding back rebel troops. While repairing the telegraph lines they built a Signal Tower that was over eighty feet high. They mustered out of Camp Chase, Ohio on August 20,1864. The 133rd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry originally mustered into Camp Chase, Ohio by Captain Otis and mustered out of Camp Chase by Captain E. Brand. This regiment was a one hundred-hay service term.
    Samuel Wright entered into the service at age twenty-two, with a rank of a private in Company C, Regiment 133rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. It is known that he lived until the age of sixty-three when he died of heart disease on December 5, 1906.

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