Harris & Ewing photo of William M. Wright, pictured here as a brigadier general, which appeared in September 1918 edition of The World's Work magazine.
William Mason Wright (September 24, 1863 – August 16, 1943) was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of lieutenant general and was most notable for his service as a division and corps commander during World War I.
He attended Yale University[5] and was a member of the Delta Psi fraternity.[6] In 1882 he left Yale for the United States Military Academy, where his roommate was John J. Pershing.[7] Wright failed his semiannual exams in December 1882 and left West Point in January 1883, resigning before school authorities took action to dismiss him.[8]
Start of military career
In 1884, Wright joined the New Jersey National Guard, receiving a captain's commission and appointment as aide-de-camp to the commander of the 1st Brigade.[9]
In January, 1885 he was nominated for appointment as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Infantry Regiment.[10] One of the final acts of outgoing President Chester A. Arthur, Wright's controversial commission received nationwide publicity; it was supported by fellow New Jersey resident Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,[11] the U.S. Secretary of State, and opposed by U.S. Secretary of WarRobert T. Lincoln, who argued that someone who had not passed the program of instruction at West Point should not receive the same reward as those who had.[12] His commission was narrowly confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February, 29 votes to 22, meaning that he received his commission more than a year before his peers in the West Point Class of 1886 graduated and received theirs.[13][14]
In 1899 Wright was promoted to captain in the regular Army.[22] He served in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War, continuing as aide-de-camp to Bates.[23]
Post-Spanish–American War
When Bates returned to the United States in 1901 to take command of the Northern Division of Department of the Missouri, and later the Department of the Lakes, Wright continued to serve as his aide.[24][25]
During the post-war occupation of Germany, Wright commanded I Corps.[39] He received the Army Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of his superior performance of duty throughout the war.[40]
Armistice Day attack
On November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, Wright was in command of the 89th Division and carried out an already planned attack against the town of Stenay only a few hours before the armistice was to take effect.[41] There were 365 casualties, including 61 dead.[42] One rationale for the attack was that he did not want the Germans to occupy the town after the armistice took effect, because Wright intended to make use of the town's bathhouses and other public works, given the amount of time his dirty troops had gone so long without baths or showers.[43] Detractors suggested Wright wanted to capture Stenay because it had cachet as the recent headquarters of Prince Rupprecht, a senior commander of German troops.[44] Another reason offered by Wright in testimony before Congress was that commanders had not been informed how long the armistice would be in effect; several continued with already planned attacks in order to improve their tactical positions, so that they could operate from a position of advantage if hostilities resumed.[45] Yet another rationale was provided by Brigadier General Fox Conner; in his Congressional testimony, Conner indicated that at the time of the armistice, severe bad weather was expected; since Stenay was one of the few towns in the area with large buildings still standing, Conner and other AEF headquarters staff wanted to occupy the town so the buildings could be used for quartering troops.[46] In addition, those who questioned Wright's decision to carry out the 89th Division's attack pointed to a rivalry with Major General Henry T. Allen, commander of the adjacent 90th Division, who also attempted to capture Stenay.[47] When it became clear that Wright and other senior commanders had ordered assaults with full knowledge that the Armistice would go into effect imminently, Allied soldiers and civilians became outraged;[48] there was controversy, but commanders, including Wright, were never punished or reprimanded.[49]
Journal
During World War I Wright kept a journal, which was later published as Meuse-Argonne Diary: A Division Commander in World War I.[50]
Wright was a highly regarded trainer of soldiers and combat leader.[56] In his memoirs, Pershing indicated that Wright left West Point only because he had difficulty passing geometry, and that his classmates approved of Wright obtaining his commission through an alternate route, even though he received his before they received theirs.[57] Pershing also commended Wright's leadership during World War I, as did former Army Chief of Staff Leonard Wood and senior British commander Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).[58]
In 1942, the U.S. Congress passed legislation allowing retired Army generals to be advanced one rank on the retired list or posthumously if they had been recommended in writing during World War I for a promotion which they did not receive, and if they had received the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross or the Army Distinguished Service Medal.[64] Wright and James G. Harbord were among those who met these criteria, and they were promoted to lieutenant general on July 9, 1942.[65]
"For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services. He commanded in turn the Thirty-fifth Division; the Third, Fifth, and
Seventh Army Corps, under the Eighth French Army in the Vosges Mountains, and later commanded the Eighty-ninth Division in the St.
Mihiel offensive and in the final operations on the Meuse River, where he proved himself to be an energetic and aggressive leader."
^Lyons, Norbert (April 1, 1922). "Major General William M. Wright". The American Chamber of Commerce Journal. Manila, Philippines: American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands. p. 108.
^Massachusetts Agricultural College (1898). Annual Report. Boston, MA: Wright & Potter. p. 19.
^Ferrell, Robert H. (2007). America's Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. p. 147. ISBN978-0-7006-1499-8. It was sickening and depressing to hear officers like Brigadier General Fox Conner (West Point, 1898), my classmate, tell of the importance of our gaining a certain ridge or section of ground before the Armistice went into effect. What did these useless killings and injuries mean to officers who had never commanded men in battle, whose entire war experience was a war on paper, where the expenditure of human life was necessary, but with which they had no experience, no responsibility, and apparently little sympathy. (Colonel Conrad S. Babcock, commander, 354th Infantry Regiment, 177th Infantry Brigade, 89th Division)
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