Provenance

• 1854: given to Thomas J. Wright (d. 1857) , a fellow cadet at USMA, West Point (class of 1854);
• 1857: Wright died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 26 October 1857.

Thomas J. Wright, the son of an army surgeon, Joseph J. B. Wright (fl. 1833), was a fellow cadet at West Point from 1850-1854. On graduating he served in the army at Jefferson Barracks, and was on frontier duty from 1855 until his death in 1857.