Newton-Jefferson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wright, Gen. Ambrose R. December 1872
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The Georgia Enterprise, January 3, 1873
Death of Gen. Ambrose R. Wright
     This event has produced a deeply saddening effect upon this community. 
Throughout Georgia, and among all the brave soldiers who followed his gallant 
lead, and served under the Confederate Flag with him, on many of the most hotly 
contested fields of the war, the announcement of Gen. Wright’s death will be 
received with sorrowful emotions. Early enlisted in the war as a private in the 
Confederate Light Guards, Gen. Wright was soon elected Colonel of his regiment, 
the 3d Georgia, and by his gallantry, military talents, and fidelity to duty, 
was first promoted Brigadier General, then Major General in the service. He 
served on many sanguinary fields, and was severely wounded in one of the 
bloodiest battles of the war, he became a resident of Augusta, where he resumed 
and continued in the active practice of his profession, until his last illness. 
Of distinguished legal abilities, and fine oratorical powers, he maintained a 
high rank at the bar, and achieved marked success as a lawyer.
     Superadded to his professional labors, he filled, with much talent, fast 
and good judgment, the responsible position of Editor-in-Chief of the Augusta 
Chronicle & Sentinel, one of the foremost dailies of the South. He had but 
recently completed an arduous and triumphant canvas as Democratic candidate for 
Congress, in the Eighth Congressional District, during which he labored 
incessantly, and made brilliant and effective speeches in every county in the 
District. His election in November by a very decisive majority was a splendid 
tribute to his abilities, and proof of public confidence in his fitness for the 
position.
     Gen. Wright was a native of Jefferson County, Ga., where he commenced his 
professional career and became early distinguished by his oratory, his legal 
acumen, and close attention to professional business. He moved to Richmond 
County about fourteen years ago and has been during that period one of our most 
active and influential citizens.
     Thus has fallen in the meridian of a conspicuous career, one who seemed, 
in all human calculation destined to a brilliant and prosperous future. Had 
Providence spared him a while longer to his constituents and his State, he 
would have marked his name yet higher in the roll of the distinguished men of 
Georgia. He would have taken at once high rank in the National Councils and won 
for himself a name of which his family, his friends, and the people of Georgia 
would have been proud.
     Alas! curbed in his high career, he is cut down by remorseless disease. 
After days of severe suffering, he has sunk to rest. No clash of arms, no 
political turmoil disturbs him now.
     “After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.” A long train of sorrowing 
friends will attend the last sad obsequies, and mingle their sympathies in this 
great public loss, and in this sad bereavement to his stricken family.
Augusta Constitutionalist, 22d.


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