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 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 AwerosE RANsoM WRIGHT IS DEAD! 
 is simple announcement will touch 
 hearts of thousands of Georgians 
 d many who dwell beyond our State 
 nines. At ten o’clock Saturday, just 
 the sun, which had hid his face 
 long in cloudy realms, burst forth 
 fo effulgence, the soul of AmBROSE 
 ‘Nsom WricuT passed from the ma- 
 jal to the spiritual world. Let us 
 cept the token of the sun, and trust 
 this our brother, who had done such 
 duty in dark and evil days, 
 
 | yet how poor a thing to those 
 emain is all human consolation, 
 ever pathetic, however true! Into 
 chamber of death 
 alone can enter with power as 
 
 the great 
 
 s tenderness. 
 ‘Him alone must those dear ones 
 
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 cee EES EY Bs Ss 
 
 TO THE MEMORY OF 
 
 SEN’L A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 
 
 2ATH OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. | who called him husband and father look 
 
 for balm which comes of Heaven. 
 
 To the people of Augusta and the 
 Eighth District of Georgia, this blow 
 will be heavy indeed. How fondly, 
 how proudly, we looked forward to the 
 day, when, the aspiration of his youth 
 and manhood fully achieved, Gen. 
 Wright should stand in the Congress of 
 these States and make eloquently voice- 
 ful the spirit of old Georgia. We felt 
 that his noble physical presenee would 
 command admiration ; and that his sonor- 
 ous utterance, his fertile wit, his ready 
 argumentation, his matchless sarcasm, 
 his dramatic power, his executive ges- 
 ture, his apt knowledge, his command-— 
 ing individuality, his gallant bearing, 
 his gladiatorial skill—the sword of Mar- 
 cellus and the buckler of Fabius—would 
 cause the North to hear, and the South 
 to feel uplifted. This is what we hoped, 
 and this is nottobe. Saddest of sad 
 words—this is not to be! The vigorous 
 brain, which fashioned so many brilliant 
 fancies and pondered so many majestic 
 thoughts, is still and cold and pulseless. 
 
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 It makes music no more. The strong 
 arm which moved meteor-like on the 
 red field of war is stiff and motionless. 
 The tongue which charmed us all be- 
 times in the gatherings of party, in the 
 hustings of the political arena, before 
 the austere forum of Justice, in social re- 
 laxation, in so many places and in such 
 infinite variety—that marvellous tongue 
 gives forth nosound, forevermore. Those 
 fingers which grasped the pen when the 
 sword had been sheathed, only to be- 
 come mightier than the sword; those 
 fingers which, moving so many men to 
 so many deeds of high emprise, till 
 Georgia, redeemed from the mountain 
 range to the stormy Atlantic, hailed him 
 as achief and deliverer—those fingers 
 are nerveless; and the pen, the wonder- 
 working pen, has fallen upon the fallen 
 sword. 
 
 And does nothing, then, remain but 
 
 death, now that Wright is dead? And 
 are those matchless qualities which once 
 were his as perishable as the frame that 
 No! 
 
 They all remain as precious memo- 
 
 shrined them! A thousand times, 
 no. 
 
 rials, as beacon-lights for the future, as 
 
 
 
 AmsrosE Ransom WRIGHT was born on 
 the twenty-sixth day of April, 1826, in 
 the town of Louisville, Jefferson county, 
 Georgia. He was the oldest son of 
 Ambrose Wright, a wealthy planter, who 
 married Sarah Hammond, of Baldwin 
 county. When between fourteen and 
 fifteen years of age, he left school and 
 commenced the study of law in the 
 office of Hon. Herschel V. Johnson. 
 Endowed with a fine mind, he made the 
 most rapid progress in study. When 
 
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 eternal protests of trampled righ 
 victorious wrong. They belong to 
 gia’s most glorious as well as her mo 
 gloomy era. That which was phy; 
 will go to dust, to the generations o! 
 tomb. But in mind‘and in spirithe u 
 survive. 3 
 
 “These shall resist the empire of decay ; 
 When time is o’er and worlds have pass 
 
 away, ' 
 Deep in its cell the perished heart may lie 
 But that which warmed it once can neyer die 
 
 
 
 The appalling shock paralyzes 
 pen. From the depths of pro rc 
 grief expression becomes unutterab 
 To trace by line and lineamentthe life 
 our friend and associate is beyond | 
 powers of muscle, brain and thoug 
 To others, or to another time, we F 1 
 trust the last sad tribute of affecti 
 and esteem—to make up the record 
 our loss—to perpetuate the memory 
 his virtues—to linger in the noble rec 
 lections of an upright man, an hon 
 citizen, a true Georgian, a true Oh 
 tian, a great mind, 
 
 To-day but let the funeral be 
 the requiem of grief. 
 
 not quite seventeen years of age, 
 married Miss Mary H. Savage, 
 daughter of Dr. William Savage, | 
 Augusta, and half sister of Miss A 
 Polk, the wife of Governor John 
 
 After their marriage, the 
 couple were thrown entirely upon 
 own resources. It was then that 
 indomitable energy and the w 
 industry of the man were mad 
 parent. Undismayed by poverty, 
 undaunted by privation, he 
 
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 Iutely to work upon a small tract of 
 1 His wife and himself lived in a 
 : His days were spent in 
 toil upon the farm—often him- 
 ollowing the plow, and using the 
 pr axe. His nights he passed at 
 reading or studying law by the 
 light of a pine-knot fire. His 
 ering labors had their reward 
 success of a comfortable 
 After being admitted to 
 , he determined to practice 
 Southwest Georgia—a country 
 had the same attractions for 
 men in those days as the great 
 has in our own time—and moved 
 ly county. His new home proved 
 ealthy that he did not remain 
 but came back to Jefferson. 
 50 his father died, leaving him- 
 brother and __ sister 
 now commenced 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -the county town of Jefferson— 
 soon obtained a fine practice.— 
 
 tered politics as a member of the 
 eratic party, and was a candidate 
 Legislature on that ticket, but 
 eated by seventeen votes. When 
 merican party was formed some 
 ter, he joined that organization, 
 ed with it until its dissolution, 
 early part of 1854 he lost the wife 
 he so dearly loved. Two years 
 e Presidential contest came on, 
 € was made an elector on the Fill- 
 cket for the State at Large. In 
 acity he stumped the middle and 
 portion of the State, and made 
 eputation for himself on thehust- 
 _ His was the eloquence, the ready 
 he quick retort, the apt illustra- 
 é pointed anecdote, the convinc- 
 argument, which make up the suc- 
 il stump-speaker, and which drew 
 crowds. In the latter part of the 
 g year he married his second 
 Carrie C. Hazlehurst, daughter 
 Hazlehurst, Esq., of Bruns- 
 While in Brunswick he was 
 
 
 
 employed with Gen. Francis Bartow, of 
 Savannah, in the somewhat celebrated 
 Styles case—representing the prisoner 
 and procuring his acquittal. In 1858 
 he was the nominee of his party for Con- 
 gress from the Eighth District, rnnhing 
 against Hon. J. J. Jones, of Burke, 
 who was the candidate of the Demo- 
 crats in place of the Hon. Alexander H. 
 stephens. Party feeling ran high, and 
 the campaign was conducted with great 
 bitterness on both sides. Gen. Wright 
 carried into the contest all his talents, his 
 energy and his vigor, and, though strug- 
 gling without hope of success, made a 
 gallant fight. He was defeated, of 
 course, but the immense majority which 
 Mr. Stephens left was greatly reduced. 
 In the month of January, 1859, General 
 Wright determined to seek a wider and 
 more inviting field, and moved from Jef- 
 ferson to Richmond county, where he 
 formed a copartnership with Judge 
 William Gibson, and continued the 
 practice of his profession. In the 
 Presidential campaign of that year he 
 was a warm supporter of the Bell and 
 Everett, or Union ticket, as it was 
 termed. 
 
 Upon the result of this election 
 General Wright—always an ardent 
 Southern and States Rights man— 
 believing the liberties of his section 
 imperilled, thought the South should 
 withdraw from the Union, and was an 
 earnest advyovate of secession. When 
 the Constitutional Convention of Geor- 
 gia passed the ordinance of secession, 
 it also appointed him a Commissioner to 
 Maryland, and Gov. H. V. Johnson Com- 
 missioner to Virginia, for the purpose of 
 inducing those States to secede and cast 
 their fortunes with their Southern sis- 
 ters. He visited Maryland, but accom- 
 plished nothing. He found the people 
 of the State, almost toa man, in favor 
 of secession, but the artful manceuyring 
 of their Executiye, Governor Hicks, 
 prevented their voice from being heard 
 until their State was over-run with sol- 
 
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 diers, and they were delivered up, bound 
 hand and foot, to the Federal Govern- 
 ment. Failing in his mission, General 
 Wright returned to Augusta, and began 
 to prepare for the storm of war which 
 was about to burst upon the country. 
 One of the first regiments to leave the 
 State was the ‘‘ Third Georgia,” com- 
 posed of companies from Augusta and 
 Middle Georgia. In one of these com- 
 panies, the ‘“‘Confederate Light Guards,” 
 he enlisted as a private, in the month of 
 April, 1861. Soon afterwards the regi- 
 ment was orderedto Portsmouth, Vir- 
 ginia. Here an election for field officers 
 was held, and he was chosen Colonel, 
 defeating Foster Blodgett, who ran for 
 the same position. The regiment was 
 attached to the brigade of Gen. Albert 
 G. Blanchard, who commanded the post. 
 A camp of instruction was formed 
 to fit the men for active service, and 
 General Wright exhibited the talent and 
 capacity in military which he had dis- 
 played in civil affairs. Indeed, he 
 seemed especially fitted for military pur- 
 suits. Heapplied himself thoroughly, and 
 books of tactics, and military treatises 
 were studied as closely as legal and po- 
 litical writers had been in time of peace. 
 He was tall, finely formed, of com- 
 manding appearance, and looked every 
 inch a soldier. He was a rigid dis- 
 ciplinarian—neglecting no duty and 
 disobeying no command himself, he per- 
 mitted neither neglect nor disobedience 
 with those under him. In the Fall of 
 1861 his regiment first saw service. The 
 18th Indiana was encamped upon an is- 
 land or the banks off the coast of North 
 Carolina, called Chicamicomico. It was 
 known that they possessed alarge quanti- 
 ty of stores, and the Confederate authori- 
 ties determined to attack them. An expe- 
 dition was fitted out, consisting of a 
 small Confederate steamer and three 
 companies of the Third Georgia, the 
 whole under the command of General 
 Wright. Under his direction it proved 
 a complete success. A Federal steamer, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 the Fanny, was captured, loade 
 large quantities of munitions of wai 
 provisions. A landing was effec! 
 Chicamicomico, and the enemy 
 After making a short stand the 
 defeated, and retreated in great « 
 sion through the marshes, losing a 
 ber of men in killed and wounde 
 abandoning several hundred s' 
 arms. In this affair General W: 
 haved with conspicuous cool 
 gallantry, and won the confider 
 officers and men. While the « 
 were retreating and the Confede 
 were in pursuit, General Wright 
 alone to a squad of four, 
 had been cut off in a small m 
 and demanded their surrender. — 
 had thrown away their guns, bt 
 plied with pistol shots, which killed 
 horse. Rapidly disengaging himse 
 threw his arm around the neck 
 soldier nearest him and, holding a] 
 over the shoulder of his living 
 work, he compelled the surrend 
 the others. His conduct and his g 
 eralship on this occasion were Co! 
 mented in the highest terms in th 
 port of General Blanchard. j 
 After this fight the regiment returt 
 to Portsmouth, where it remaine 
 the Winter, and its commander 
 elected Colonel without opposition. 
 the Spring of 1862 he was a second 
 entrusted with a separate command 
 again showed himself a soldier. 
 In the month of April, 1862, G 
 Wright was placed in command 0 
 force, consisting of his own regime 
 a small number of North Caro 
 militia, fourteen pieces of artillery: 
 a company of Southampton cavalry, ¢ 
 sent to South Mills, on the North Gs 
 lina coast, to meet a threatened e 
 tion of the enemy. On the mon 
 the 19th the enemy, consisting of 
 9th, 2lstand 89th New York, 2ist 
 chusetts, 6th New Hampshire and 
 Pennsylvania, under command of 6 
 Reno, approached from Camden 
 
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 . Gen. Wright advanced to meet 
 m and selected an admirable position 
 ait their attack. His force was 
 on Sawyer’s Lane, a narrow 
 way leading through aswamp. A 
 ditch, some distance in front of the 
 s filled with rails which wereset 
 n order that it might not be oc- 
 d by the enemy. His own men 
 2 protected by rails, and the artillery 
 ed in the road just where it emerged 
 nthe woods. The enemy made his 
 earance and commenced the attack 
 welve o’clock, endeavoring to storm 
 onfederate position and relying on 
 “superior numvers for success. 
 were beaten back, but again re- 
 
 the charge and were a second 
 defeated. Four times within three 
 _they advanced upon the works 
 four times were they repulsed with 
 
 slaughter. ‘‘At four o’clock”—we 
 @ from the official report of Gen. 
 r, commanding the department of 
 ak—‘‘the enemy deployed in the 
 field and bore down rapidly, but 
 wy fire of musketry caused them 
 and they fled back to the fence. 
 siments of the enemy and afield 
 
 vere in the centre, and the 9th 
 fork regiment on the right. The 
 as now brisk from one end of the 
 ) the other, and the enemy were 
 n check, when just at this moment 
 tain of the artilery was killed 
 men became panic stricken and 
 ie field. Col. Wright succeeded 
 llying them, getting two pieces and 
 men in position, and the enemy 
 ow advanced so close that canister 
 on them with effect and they 
 back. After this the amuni- 
 a the limber boxes became ex- 
 and the artillery left the field. 
 my made another assault, but 
 dy fire of the infantry at close 
 e—fifty yards—caused them to 
 in confusion.” Thus ended the 
 and at night-fall the enemy re- 
 d tothe protection of their gun- 
 
 
 
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 boats. The position was held against 
 fearful odds for more than five hours 
 and the enemy’s loss in killed, wounded 
 and prisoners exceeded the whole force of 
 Confederates engaged in the action. 
 
 A short time after this Gen. Wright 
 engaged in an expedition which more 
 than any feat of arms attested his devo- 
 tion to country, and his willingness to 
 brave even an ignominious death while 
 in her service. A heavy force of the 
 enemy occupied Elizabeth City and it 
 became of the utmost importance to the 
 Confederate commander to ascertain 
 their numbers and intentions. In the 
 emergency Gen. Wright and Maj. Lee, 
 of the Third Georgia, volunteered to per- 
 form this dangerous duty. Leaving the 
 Confederate camp late in the afternoon, 
 disguised as civilians they eluded the 
 enemy's pickets and entered the town, 
 where they were mistaken for citizens. 
 They remained there for several hours, 
 mixing and coversing freely with the 
 Federal soldiery, from whom tbey ob- 
 tained the information which was de- 
 sired. Late in the night they made 
 their way out of the lines—where they 
 would have received instant death had 
 they been recognized—and rejoined in 
 safety the Confederate forces. 
 
 Soon after the affair of South Mills 
 he returned to Virginia and was in 
 the retreat from the Peninsular be- 
 fore the army of McClellan. Some time 
 in June, and shortly after the army 
 centred near Richmond for the ‘‘ seven 
 days’” fights, he received his commis- 
 sion as a Brigadier-General in the Con- 
 federate army asa reward for his ser- 
 vices at South Mills. His command was 
 attached to the division of General 
 Huger and participated in the engage- 
 ments of Seven Pines, Frasier’s Farm, 
 Gaines’ Mill, Malvern Hill and the 
 James River Landing. In each of these 
 engagements he behaved with his ac- 
 customed bravery and rendered the most 
 efficient service to the Confederate 
 cause. At Malvern Hill his brigade 
 
made a charge which was complimented 
 in the highest terms. His brigade fol- 
 lowed the enemy on his retreat into 
 Maryland and took part in the second 
 battle of Manassas, where his son 
 and staff officer, Lientenant W. A. 
 Wright, lost a leg. In the bloody 
 contest of Sharpsburg he fought 
 gallantly with his brigade, and 
 was wounded in two places—in the 
 breast and leg—and had his horse shot 
 from under him. He was carried from 
 the field upon a litter, and, after the 
 army reached Virginia, came home ona 
 furlough, remaining only long enough 
 for his wounds to heal. In November 
 he returned to Virginia and was assign- 
 ed to Anderson’s Division, A. P. Hill’s 
 corps. In the seven or eight days’ 
 fighting at Chancellorsyille, in May, 
 1863, the brigade was actively engaged. 
 On the second of May it com- 
 menced the: fight on the Plank 
 Road, driving the enemy from and 
 capturing a line of breastworks. On 
 Sunday morning the fight was renewed 
 on the left of the Plank Road, and 
 Wright’s Brigade, supported by Posey 
 and Perry, made the attack. The enemy 
 was driven back fo their breastworks, 
 out of the first line into the second and 
 then out of the second. In this engage- 
 ment aportion of the Third Georgia cap- 
 tured a Federal regiment (including Co- 
 lonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, 
 and Adjutant) who surrendered with 
 guns in their hands. On the day 
 following, Anderson’s division .and 
 Early’s charged the enemy in po- 
 sition on the river road (Wright’s 
 brigade in advance) and routed them. 
 This charge was made under the 
 eye of General Lee, who directed the 
 movement and complimented the troops 
 in the highest manner. In this engage- 
 ment General Wright was wounded in 
 the knee by apiece of schrapnel. He 
 went with the army into Pennsylvania 
 during the Summer following, and took 
 part in the battle of Gettysburg. Of 
 
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 his conduct there, General Lee, 
 official report, speaks as follows: | 
 
 The enemy occupied a strong pa 
 with his right upon two comm: 
 elevations adjacent to each o her 
 southeast and the other, 
 Cemetery Hill, immediately 
 the town which lay at its base, 
 extended thence upon the high gi 
 along the Emmettsburg road, > 
 steep ridge in the rear, which 
 occupied. This ridge was d 
 ascent, particularly the two hi 
 mentioned as forming its northel 
 tremity, and a third at the othe 
 on which the enemy’s left 
 Numerous stone and rail fences: 
 the slope served to afford protecti 
 his troops, to impede our advance 
 his front the ground was undul; 
 and generally open for about ti 
 quarters of a mile. Hill’s compa ! 
 the west of Cemetery Hill, and exte 
 nearly parellel to the Emmettsburg 
 making an angle with Ewell’s. Pendej 
 vision formed his left, Anderson hist 
 Heth’s, under Brigadier-General } 
 grew, being in reserve. It was dete: 
 to make the principal attack upe 
 enemy’s left, and endeavor to ga 
 position from which it was thought 
 our artillery could be brought to 
 with effect. Longstreet was direct 
 place the divisions of McLaws 
 Hood on the right | of Hill, pz 
 veloping the enemy’s left, which h 
 to drive in. General Hill was o le] 
 to threaten the enemy’s centre to 
 vent re-inforceements being drama 
 either wing, and to co-operate wit 
 right division in Longstreet’s 
 General Ewell was directed to 
 simultaneous demonstration upon 
 enemy’s right, to be converted 
 real attack should opportunity 
 About 4 p. m. Longstreet’s ba 
 and soon afterwards 
 
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 the attack. McLaws followed 5s 
 what later, four of Anderson’s brik 
 —those of Wilcox, Perry, Wrig! 
 Posey—supporting him on the | 
 the ordernamed, The enemy wa 
 driven from his position on the 
 mettsburg road to the cover of a 
 and a line of stone fences at the f 
 the ridge in the rear. He ‘was disl 
 from these after a severe strugg 
 retired up the ridge, leaving a 0 
 of his batteries in our poss 
 Wilcox’s and Wright’s brigad 
 

 
 
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 d with great gallantry, breaking 
 ve lines of the enemy’s infantry 
 ompelling him to abandon much 
 artillery. Wilcox reached the 
 nd Wright gained the crest of the 
 tself, driving the enemy down 
 osite side; but having become 
 ed from McLaws, and gone be- 
 the other two brigades of the 
 sion, they were attacked in front 
 
 both flanks and compelled to re- 
 being unable to bring off any of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 back, and, it being nearly dark, 
 Longstreet determined to await 
 wrival of General Pickett. Four 
 of artillery, several hundred 
 ers and two regimental flags were 
 
 the retreat began, Wright’s brig- 
 ll farther distinguished itself. 
 
 illey, General Wright’s command 
 eft to guard Manassas Gap until he 
 arrive. In this position they were 
 sed by an army corps of the enemy, 
 h they held in check until Ewell’s 
 
 el 
 
 e had made ‘‘the best fight of the 
 Prior to Gettysburg, General 
 ght and staff, while riding in advance 
 e division, entered a little town in 
 he enemy’s cayairy—dressed in 
 ienant Martindale. The General 
 of his staff escaped except his 
 eutenant Wright, who was cap- 
 (not being able to ride rapidly on 
 of the loss of his leg at Manassas 
 preceeding) and kept at John- 
 land for more than twelve months. 
 e Fall of 1863 General Wright ran 
 State Senate and was elected. 
 ovember of that year he took his 
 Milledgeville and was a candi- 
 for President of the Senate. His 
 ionent was Mr. Chambers, of Colum- 
 and after seventeen successive bal- 
 there being a tie on every ballot— 
 al Wright was elected. As a Sena- 
 as an ardent advocate of every 
 
 ptured artillery. McLaws’ left | 
 
 e al Ewell having been detained in| 
 
 and arrived in safety. General 
 | exclaimed on the field that this | 
 
 land and were ambushed by a party | 
 
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 measure tending to strengthen the Gene- 
 ral Government and maintain the war 
 vigorously, and bitterly opposed the at- 
 tacks upon the cause made by those who, 
 in their zealfor the forms of constitu- 
 tional government were, without design 
 perhaps, weakening our cause. He sup- 
 ported warmly Governor Johnson (who 
 was elected) for the Senate against Gen. 
 Toombs. Upon the adjournment of the 
 Legislature hereturned to the front and 
 
 resumed command of his brigade. In 
 the campaigns of the Spring and 
 Summer of 1864, beginning at the 
 
 Wilderness and ending in front of Pe- 
 tersburg, General Wright behaved with 
 his usual conspicuous gallantry, and in 
 one brilliant movement, executed by him 
 in front of Petersburg, he stormed and 
 captured a line of the enemy’s entrench- 
 ments, turned and doubled up-the flank 
 of one of their army corps, and captured 
 more prisoners than there were men in 
 his brigade. 
 
 At the close of this campaign a 
 serious illness compelled him to re- 
 turn to Georgia, and he was placed 
 in command of the post of Augusta. In 
 the Fall of 1864 President Davis sent 
 him his commission as a Major General, 
 and he was assigned to the command of 
 
 a division in Savannah, under Lieutenant 
 nut suits—under the command of | 
 
 General Hardee. He was present at the 
 siege of and retreat from Savannah, and 
 then followed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston 
 into North Carolina, where the sur- 
 render took’place. He returned to Au- 
 gusta culy in time to assist in saving 
 the city from sack and destruction. The 
 town was filled with needy paroled sol- 
 diers on their way home, who, exasper- 
 ated by recent privations, determined to 
 gut the stores of the city and help them- 
 selves to their contents. A raid was 
 made, several stores were broken open 
 and plundered, and the ruin of the town 
 seemed certain, when General Wright 
 and a few resolute men interposed. He 
 took a position in front of the mob, 
 calling upon the soldiers of Bob 
 
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 Lee to rally to his support, and im- 
 plored the crowd to bear him; and 
 perhaps the best and most effective 
 speech of his life was the one delivered 
 from the top of a tree-box on Broad 
 street to the mob of maddened soldiers 
 and infuriated women which surged be- 
 neath. It had its effect. The mob hesi- 
 tated, then listened, then reflected, and 
 the city was saved. 
 
 When warcameit found him in a luera- 
 tive practice and easy circumstances. 
 When it had passed, it left him with 
 his practice destroyed, himself im- 
 poverished—his property all swept 
 away eacept the home in which he 
 lived. For -ix months he worked as he 
 had done in early life, laboring with his 
 own hands, and earning a living for his 
 family. In the beginning of 1866 he re- 
 opened his law office in Augusta, and 
 renewed his copartnership with Judge 
 Gibson, which lasted until the lat- 
 ter went upon the bench. In March, 
 1866, Henry Moore, Esq., purchased 
 the CaRronicLE AND SENTINEL, and his 
 friend, General Wright, became one of 
 the editors of the paper. Through the 
 mismanagement of the former owner, 
 the paper had lost its old standing, and 
 its circulation had been reduced to 
 almost nothing. General Wright was 
 widely known, had numerous army 
 friends scattered over the State, was per- 
 sonally popular, attended the Courts of 
 the Circuit, and mixed with the people. 
 Subscribers were rapidly procured, and 
 with subscribers came other business, 
 until the enterprise stood upon a firm 
 and flourishing footing. The CHRonIcLE 
 AND SENTINEL and its editors defended 
 the cause of the Southern people prompt- 
 ly, and with ardor. In the troublous 
 times of reconstruction and military 
 rule—when public men were fright- 
 ened and party leaders dumb—the 
 CHRONICLE never ceased to denounce 
 despots and despotisms, to protest 
 
 against the usurpations of a revo-| was 
 lutionary Congress, or to expose and | that 
 
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 hold up to publie indignation ar 
 tempt the miserable crew of 
 scalawags and carpet-baggers, and 
 political vermin, who overran & 
 and the South. Thisjournal r 
 self hated and feared; but 
 neither be bribed nor intimid 
 its thunders never ceased w 
 lay prostrate and Wrong occu 
 place of power. In every m 
 against corruption the CHRonIcr 
 a leader, and continue? its y 
 until Georgia was rid of the foul 
 bus of Radicalism which had opp: 
 her, and stood forth before the 
 disenthralled. 4 
 
 In January, 1871, General © 
 was a candidate for United ; 
 Senator in the Democratic Legis 
 caucus, together with Hon. H 
 Miller, Gen. P. B. M. Young, 
 M. Norwood and others. After a 
 citing contest, which was finally n 2 
 ed to himself and Mr. Norwood 
 latter received the nomination an 
 electel. In the Summer of 1872 
 eral Wright was sent to the State 
 vention of the Democracy, and b; 
 latter body elected a delegate fi 0 0 
 State at Large to the Baltimore Ce 
 tion. There he favored the nom 
 but voted against the platform ¢ 
 Cincinnati movement. In the 
 Convention of August, he was Cha 
 of the Committee on Resolutions, 
 reported the platform upon whiel 
 Democracy went into the campa 
 gained such a brilliant victor 
 October. When the Congressional 
 vention met in this city he rece 
 the nomination for Congress — 
 the Eighth District. He ha 
 hardest race in the State befo: 
 having not only to encounter the Rept 
 lican nominee, Mr. P. Clayton, but 2 
 Gen. Toombs’ son-in-law, Gen. Du 
 who ran as a ‘‘Straight-out.” 
 Gen. DuBose entered the field 
 believed by almost eve 
 he would take away enot 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 votes to secure the election 
 layton. General Wright never 
 faith in the justice of his 
 or felt alarm for the resuit. 
 ile relying much upon his cause 
 ied equally upon himself, and at 
 ommenced an active, a protracted 
 n exhaustive canvass. He threw 
 le soul into the contest, ‘‘stump- 
 very county in the District, spealk- 
 yery day with all his eloquence in 
 f of the Democratic and Liberal 
 y, and making hundreds of friends 
 ver he went. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 he malicious warfare of personal 
 es, he defeated his two antagonists 
 ery county in the District but one, 
 hem both put together in most of 
 and was elected by nearly 
 thousand five hundred majority. 
 r weeks ago he was confined to his 
 se but not his bed, by a slight in- 
 ition. A week before his death 
 IIness assumed aserious form. On 
 Thursday he grew rapidly worse, 
 on Saturday morning the sol- 
 and the patriot sank peacefully 
 almly into that long, last sleep 
 _knows no waking, while the wife 
 ildren so dear to his heart knelt 
 d the couch of death and prayed 
 God of Heaven to receive the 
 him they so fondly loved. 
 is a brief and necessarily imper- 
 tline of the life of General 
 During his career he filled 
 important positions, and the fact 
 e achieved distinction in all of 
 is certainly evidence of the man’s 
 genius and wonderful abilities. 
 wyer he had few peers at the bar. 
 wledge of the law was deep and 
 d, while the quickness of his 
 lwas something really wonderful. 
 ntered into a case with his whole 
 nd made his client’s cause his 
 His speeches in the Court House 
 eloquent, earnest and effective ap: 
 
 On election day his | 
 ations were realized. Despite the | 
 opposition of political opponents | 
 
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 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. ii 
 
 peals, full of close reasoning and con- 
 vincing logic. As an editor, he had the 
 rare gift of being able to wiite for the 
 people. His articles were terse and to 
 the point, and carried conviction by the 
 sincerity which pervaded them. No 
 man could write more strongly—no 
 man could write more effectively. Asa 
 soldier the.e was not his superi:r among 
 the civilians who entered the army. He 
 early won the confidence of his men, and 
 never forfeited it. They did not hesitate 
 to follow, because they knew he did not 
 fear to 1ead. Cool and intrepid, he 
 never missed seeing his opportunity, 
 and never failed to improve it. He was 
 strict without being tyrannical, firm 
 without being harsh, resolute without 
 being obstinate. In private life he was 
 an exemplar of all the domestic virtues. 
 To the world he often appeared reserved 
 and formal, but his friends and his fam- 
 ily knew that under a seemingly cold 
 exterior there beat a warm heart, full of 
 tenderness and love. Where he loved, 
 he loved deeply and confided implicitly. 
 There was nothing which he wouid not 
 do to promote the welfare and secure 
 
 _ the happiness of those who had his af- 
 
 fection, no error which he would not 
 forget, no fault which he would not for- 
 give. He had his imperfections, but the 
 
 ; perfect man has not lived. He had his 
 
 passions and his prejudices, too, and 
 the frailties of human nature, for he was 
 but mortal. But he had virtues enough 
 to atone for them all. His faulis, 
 like spots upon the sun, which make 
 its brightness greater, served only to 
 lend additional lustre to the dazzling 
 splendor of his fame. Clad in the livery 
 of liberty, in the livery of a cause which 
 he loved better than life itself—for on a 
 hundred battle fields he offered his life 
 in its behalf—he sleeps in the quiet city 
 of the dead. Cut downin his prime— 
 in the very noon-tide of his life—he yet 
 died with honors thick upon him; died 
 after drinking deeper of the cup of fame 
 than men who lived to twice his years; 
 
12 
 
 
 
 died after many noble deeds and glori- 
 ous sacrifices; died having the love and 
 the respect of all good men; died leay- 
 ing his name as a part of the history of 
 
 his country. And yet he is not dead ! 
 
 
 
 OBSEQUIES OF GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 In less than an hour after the spirit of 
 General Wright had taken its flight for 
 the land 
 
 ‘Beyond the river,” 
 The sad intelligence had reached every 
 circle in this city, and the uniform ex- 
 clamation was: What a loss to his fam- 
 ily—this community, and State! 
 
 The morning papers were eagerly 
 sought in order to ascertain the hour 
 appointed for the funeral services—12:30, 
 p.m. By high noon vast crowds began 
 to wend their way to the late residence 
 of the deceased. 
 
 Numbers, both white and colored, 
 passed solemnly around the remains of 
 the departed cbieftain and statesman, 
 looking for the last time here, in grief 
 and in sympathy, upon the face which, 
 in life, never turned from duty, and in 
 the icy embrace of death bore the im- 
 press of resignation. 
 
 At about 1 o’clock, p. m., the proces- 
 sion having been formed on McIntosh 
 street, moved off in the following order : 
 
 Sabre Club, Lieut. John W. Clark, 
 commanding. 
 
 City Police, Chief J. A. Christian, 
 commanding. 
 
 Oglethorpe Infantry, Capt. W. Daniel, 
 commanding. 
 
 Confederate soldiers, from various 
 commands, under Maj. 8. H. Crump. 
 
 Clinch Rifles, Lieut. S. H. Rowland, 
 commanding. 
 
 Trish Volunteers, Capt. William Mul- 
 herin, commanding. 
 
 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 He has out-soared the shadow of ow 
 Envy and hate and calumny and 
 And that unrest. which men miscall 
 
 Shall trouble not, shall torture not 
 From the contagion of the world’s — 
 He is secure. And now shall neve; 
 A heart grown cold, a head grown gray ii 
 Nor when the Spirit’s self has ceased t 
 With sparkless ashes load an unlamente 
 
 Fire Department, under comma 
 Assistant Chief J. J. Moore. 
 The whole under the comma 
 Maj. J. V. H. Allen, with Major 
 Crump as Aid, furnishing the milit 
 escort. 4 
 Webb and Social Lodges of Maso 
 Carriage with the officiating cler 
 man, Rev. W. H. Clark, Rector of 
 Paul’s Church. 
 The hearse with the remains 0} 
 deceased. 
 Carriages with pall bearers—Hoi 
 T. Shewmake, General Kershaw, 1 
 R. H. May, Henry Moore, Esq., Me 
 J. B. Cumming, Colonel Clai 
 Snead, J. C. C. Black, Esq., Alex. Ph 
 Esq., Captain J. K. Evans, and Pati 
 Walsh, Esq. 
 Carriages with family and relative: 
 the deceased. 
 
 Members of the Bar of Richm 
 county. 
 
 City Council of Augusta. 
 Citizens generally. 
 Carriages. 
 At every crossing on the doloi) 
 way to the City of the Dead crowd 
 white and colored persons assemble 
 pay mute respect to one who had f 
 lessly and faithfully illustrated 
 wherever and whenever duty called. 
 The Sabbath, in its impressive 
 etude, appeared a fitting day for 
 burial of our lamented fellow-citi 
 The sun shone out in all his sp 
 but the gloom which the General’s 
 
TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 ong the distinguished citizens 
 
 t to pay the last sad tribute to the 
 yory of the deceased, were Gov. 
 3s. J. Jenkins, Bishop Quintard, of 
 
 Tre, Goy. Herschel V. Johnson, 
 Toombs, Gen. Kershaw, of South 
 lina, W. Hope Hull, Esq., Judge 
 ld, Hon. H. W. Hillard, James 
 Iner, Esq., Judge Gibson, Judge 
 k, Judge Twiggs, and others whose 
 es we do not now recall. 
 the grave, the Rev. W. H. Clarke 
 
 IN MEM 
 
 is with a sad and sorrowful heart 
 
 we publish from our exchanges, 
 a tributes to our late asso- 
 3, General A. R. Wright. Cut off 
 ie midst of his usefulness, in the 
 of his intellectual oo with 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 his death is a calamity to this 
 ity—to this State that he has 
 a honored so much—an irrepa- 
 
 @ loss to his stricken family, and 
 re blow to his associates in this 
 
 mun 
 
 [From the Constitutionalist.] 
 . ‘H OF GEN. AMBROSE R. WRIGHT. 
 
 ris event has produced a deeply sad- 
 effect upon this community.— 
 shout Georgia, and among all the 
 Soldiers who followed his gallant 
 ind served under the Confederate 
 ith him on many of the most hotly 
 ted fields of the war, the an- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 isted in the war as a eine in 
 jonfederate Light Guards, Gen. 
 it was soon elected Colonel of his 
 
 
 
 
 
 concluded the impressive services com- 
 menced at the house. Then the Masonic 
 Brotherhood performed the last rites of 
 that noble organization, of which the 
 deceased wasan honored member. These 
 services were, in a melancholy sense, 
 deeply interesting, and were, in spirit at 
 least, feelingly participated in by the 
 multitude present. 
 
 The whole heart of our community 
 goes out in the most profound sorrow 
 for the dead, and in the most earnest 
 sympathy for the living who are left to 
 mourn a husband, father and friend. 
 
 
 
 ORIAM. 
 
 eral, 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. “Disabled 
 by his wounds, Gen. Wright returned 
 home, and was elected to the State Sen- 
 ate, and President of the Senate, serv- 
 ing one term in that high office. At the 
 close of the war he became a resident of 
 Augusta, where he resumed and con- 
 tinued in the active practice of his pro- 
 fession until his last illness. Of distin- 
 guished legal abilities and fine oratori- 
 cal 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, tact and 
 good judgment, the responsible position 
 of Editor-in-Chief of the Augusta CHRontI- 
 cuE & SeEnrinet, one of the foremost 
 dailies of the South. He had but re- 
 cently completed an arduous and trium- 
 phant canvass as Democractic candidate 
 for Congress in the Highth Congres- 
 sional District, during which he labor- 
 ed incessantly, and made brilliant and 
 effective speeces 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. 
 
14 
 
 
 
 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 clo-e attention to profes- 
 sional business. He moved to Rich- 
 mond county abont fourteen years ago, 
 and has been dnring 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 awhile longer to 
 his constituents and his State, he would 
 have marked his name yet higher in the 
 role of the distinguished men of Geor- 
 gia. 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 ofarms—uno political tur- 
 moil 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 
 publicloss, and this sad bereavement 
 to his stricken family. 
 
 [From the Savannah Republican.] 
 GEN. AMBROSE RANSOM WRIGHT. 
 
 Our telegraphic dispatch announces 
 the death of this distinguished journalist 
 and gallant soldier. One by one the old 
 landmarks that point our eyes to the 
 contemplation of the past glories of our 
 State are fading, and new forms arise 
 and give a different air and coloring to 
 the pile. And now, at one fell stroke, 
 one of the fairest statues that ornamen- 
 ted the dome of our nobility has been 
 prostrated—never to be restored. 
 
 Gen. Wright was a lawyer by profes- 
 sion, and he had won no scanty laurels 
 at the bar. At the call of his State, he 
 led forth to battle the boys of the 3d 
 Georgia Regiment. A strict discipli- 
 narian, a prompt, efficient and trusted 
 leader, he was promoted to the rank of 
 Brigadier General in the army of North- 
 erfi Virginia. He passed through all the 
 important battles fought in Northern 
 Virginia, and was again, in the Winter 
 of 1863-’64, elevated in rank, becoming 
 a Major General: 
 
 As an officer he was strict, yet popular 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 the able editor of the Augusta — 
 cLE & Sentinet. Placed thus 
 head of a leading journal, he e: 
 an influence in polities and took 
 ing part in their discussion. F 
 elected to Congress in place ‘of J 
 Bose, and in despite of the op 
 of the ‘‘ Straight-out ticket” and 
 publican nominee, he is taken aw 
 when fortune seemed to haye 1 
 him for “high empire.” . 
 
 General Wright’s death will 
 great loss to his constituents a 
 State ; a greater loss to his paper 
 loss to his family that cannot 
 ured in words. With these, 
 lament his untimely fall. 
 
 GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 The death of this very able and 
 nent Georgian will be a large loss 
 State at this juncture. His dea 
 very unexpected. He was in the 
 of his vigorous and intellectual 
 hood, and had the promise of | 
 and useful, and brilliant caree 
 remember him buta few weeks 
 the most lusty health, and robu 
 tal vigor. j 
 
 He has been prominent in ¢ 
 politics for many years. Beforet 
 he had taken part in the politic 
 tests of that time, and had made | 
 reputation as one of the boldest, 
 and most effective stump speake 
 “‘Ranse Wright” he was know1 
 every hustings, and made himse 
 political power. 
 
 He was a lawyer in large ands 
 ful practice, and exhibited the 
 ability, zeal, and eloqnence as ané 
 cate that he did as a politician. — 
 
 Since the war he was the chief e 
 of that popular and powerful old jou 
 the Augusta CHRONICLE AND SEN 
 and he wielded a pen as ready a 
 ble as he was eloquent as a sp 
 
 In the late contest he was elee 
 stances peculiarly flattering, and W 
 looked to his advent in the Nat 
 Councils with a very large degree 0: 
 pectation. He would have mad 
 mark there, and at this time we Té, 
 ed his presence in Congress as pee 
 ly fortunate. He had the ab 
 nerve, and experience to hav 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ays, when Georgia had her best 
 ashington. 
 
 enot at hand the particulars 
 e, but he has been for years 
 ing his county in State Conven- 
 He was a delégate at large to the 
 e Convention and member from 
 n the National Democratic Ex- 
 Committee. 
 
 soldier he illustrated Georgia in 
 ' war. Herose to be Brigadier 
 and proved himself as dashing 
 iotic in battle as in civil life. 
 
 yas married twice. He leaves a 
 vite and several children to mourn 
 
 iter knew General Wright well, 
 1a high estimate of his qualities. 
 Wright was a decided character. 
 re was aggressive in its opera- 
 He was strikingly fearless, and 
 ies to back his courage. 
 
 ecard him asa large loss to Geor- 
 profoundly regret his sad and 
 decease. 
 
 [From the Savannah Advertiser. ] 
 
 OF GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT. 
 vate telegram received in our city 
 ferday conveyed the sad and 
 intelligence of the death of 
 | A. R. Wright, editor of the Au- 
 RONICLE & SENTINEL, and mem- 
 Congress elect from the Highth 
 Mention had been made of his 
 jon in such a shape as to quiet 
 yrehensions of his death. 
 
 lata is not before us from which 
 a sketch of the life of General 
 . He was well known in Georgia, 
 own that the announcement of 
 will be regarded by most of 
 ho read it as a public calamity. 
 is to the war General Wright had 
 honorable political distinction. 
 ty never had strength enough to 
 m to the honors he contested for, 
 } that old and honored party he 
 cnowledged and honored leader. 
 altord to say this, for we were 
 m nember of it. 
 
 -in the late war General Wright 
 @ prominent position. By hard 
 nd gallant conduct, he won 
 motion. He returned to his 
 ts close with many names added 
 | of friends that had not graced 
 
 mg in the practice of law, he 
 e to take an active and useful 
 of the party contests in which 
 h has been engaged, and finally, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 15 
 
 after a most able and gallant canvass, 
 the long coveted honor of a seat, in 
 Congress was put within his reach. 
 
 With genuine sadness we record the 
 fact that death has again mocked the 
 vanity of human ambition. 
 
 General Wright was a ready and im- 
 pressive orator, a strong and sensible 
 writer, and an honorable gentleman, 
 whose impulses and exuberance of 
 thought, speech and manner, were set 
 down to disadvantage against his sound 
 sense and practical qualities. Georgia 
 has lost a true and loyal son, the bara 
 brilliant advocate, the press a tower of 
 strength. 
 
 [From the Savannah Morning News.] 
 
 DEATH OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 The telegraphic announcement of the 
 death of General Ambrose Ransom 
 Wright, of Augusta, was a severe shock 
 to the many friends of this distinguished 
 gentleman. The occurrence, though sud- 
 den, was not altogether unlooked for. 
 For the past three weeks Gen. Wright 
 has been prostrated by a nervous fever, 
 and, while the symptoms were serious, 
 it was hoped that his fine constitution 
 would bring him safely through the 
 crisis. 
 
 It is no easy task for even the hand of 
 friendship to pay just tribute to the 
 newly-dead; and here, almost upon the 
 borders of the grave of one of Georgia’s 
 truest and worthiest sons, we have not 
 heart to attempt it. General Wright’s 
 career since 1860 is too well known to 
 require rehearsal, His intellectual qual- 
 ities were of a very high order, and 
 with great versatility of mind he com- 
 bined unusual eneigy and strength of 
 character. He was a true patriot, and 
 illustrated his love for his State and 
 people in the most conspicuous manner 
 as an orator, soldier and editor. 
 
 In more than one respect the death of 
 General Wright is untimely. His seat 
 in the next Congress, from the Highth 
 District, is made vacant, and it will be 
 no easy matter for his constituents to 
 find a man who will represent them 
 more unselfishly and devotedly. 
 
 To his family and to our brethren of 
 the CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL we extend 
 a condolence which, if unavailing, is 
 none the less sincere. 
 
 [From the Macon Telegraph and Messenger. | 
 
 DEATH OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 We were profoundly shocked and 
 grieved yesterday to hear of this sad 
 
16 
 
 event, which happened at Augusta yester- 
 day morning. We had heard that Gen. 
 W. was ill, but no intimation that his 
 illness was of a serious nature had ever 
 reached us. It seems, however, that his 
 health has not been good for some time, 
 and that his last illness commenced some 
 three weeks since. 
 
 Gen. Wright was born, we believe, in 
 Jefferson county, and had reached the 
 age of 47, and, for many years, had been 
 prominently before the people of Geor- 
 gia as lawyer and politician, and more 
 latterly as editor of the CHRONICLE AND 
 SentTIneL. Nature had been more than 
 ordinarily gracious to him in her gifts, 
 and before a jury, on the stump, or in 
 the editorial chair he was very strong. 
 Whatever he did was done with all the 
 fervor of anintense nature and an indomi- 
 table will. He was astern figher, whethter 
 in field or forum, and though he dealt 
 hard blows and aroused many antagon- 
 isms, he never struck from behind or 
 under cover. His career as a Confed- 
 erate officer was exceptionally brilliant, 
 and while time endures the part played 
 by ‘‘ Wright’s Brigade” in the glorious 
 drama that closed at Appamattox will 
 live among the brighest pages of Geor- 
 gia history. During the last canvass he 
 was the candidate of the Democracy of 
 his District for Congress, and after a 
 most exciting canvass was triumphantly 
 elected over two competitors, and would 
 have taken his seat on the 4th of March 
 in the Forty-third Congress. } 
 
 But we leave to others more able than 
 ourselves the sad duty of paying a fit- 
 ting tribute to his memory. We can 
 only say that by his death Georgia has 
 lost as true and devoted a som as ever 
 drew a blade in her defense. What 
 higher eulogy could be pronounced ? 
 
 
 
 [From the Charleston News. ] 
 DEATH OF GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 It gives us much sorrow to announce 
 the death of General A. R. Wright, one 
 of the editors of the Augusta CHRONTI- 
 CLE AND SENTINEL and member elect 
 from the Eighth Congressional District 
 of Georgia. Well may the community 
 in which helived, and which he adorned, 
 deplore his untimely loss. Well may 
 his sorrowing associates say of him that 
 he was a brave soldier, an able jurist, a 
 matchless orator. General Wright had 
 a host of warm personal friends in 
 Augusta, and the respect and esteem of 
 the entire community. He was a man 
 
 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 residence in Augusta, as will be 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of high intellectual attain me 
 
 sterling character, and we 
 earnest sympathies to those to whe 
 death has wrought the keenest t 
 ment. 
 
 [From the Wilmington (N. C.) ow 
 GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT, 
 
 i 
 
 It is with profound sorrow th: 
 cord the death of General Ambro 
 som Wright, of Augusta. 
 
 General Wright was one of 
 most distinguished sons. As an 
 of the Confederate army, as a 
 of the bar, in the editorial ss 
 and in the social circle, he wa 
 distinguished and honored. A 
 great personal magnetism, he 
 friends in every sphere of life, — 
 
 We had formed for him a wa 
 sonal attachment. A friendshi 
 during an association in the arp 
 been cemented. by the ties of 
 torial sanctum. As a friend an¢ 
 editor we sincerely mourn his 
 
 To his bereaved family 
 associates upon the staff of the ¢ 
 CLE AND SENTINEL, we extend ou 
 heartfelt sympathies. His deatl 
 time, just as he was about to en 
 on his duties as a member of Cong 
 is a loss not only to Georgia, bu 
 whole South. . 
 
 [From the Rome Commerce 
 GEN. A. R. WRIGHT DEAD, 
 
 This distinguished and noble 
 Georgia died yesterday morning, 
 our telegraph columns. The pe 
 Georgia will deeply feel this u 
 and unexpected loss. Gen. Wri 
 one of the few men upon who 
 could rely in time of public ¢ 
 He was a true, a fearless and a fal 
 man to all his publie trusts. 
 dier, as an editor, as a state 
 was marked for his nerve, his jj 
 and his sagacity. As an orato 
 bold, brilliant and captivat 
 made no failure in anything he 
 took, and but few men have shoy 
 versatility of genius, such ap 
 the noblest callings of life. We 
 express our grief for this sad 4 
 tion, and tender to his family ov 
 felt sympathy in their sad berea’ 
 The press of Georgia has lost or 
 brighest ornaments, and the State 2 
 resentative who would have mi 
 fended her honor and added new 
 
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 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 17 
 
 
 
 
 
 ar grand old history. May his rest 
 saceful. 
 
 rom the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer.] 
 DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK. 
 neral Ambrose Ransom Wright, of 
 gia, died on Saturday, after a brief 
 38, at the age of forty-seven. He 
 nm the prime and vigor of manhood, 
 us unlooked for death is a Heavy 
 to the people of Augusta and the 
 th District of Georgia, from which 
 us so recently elected to Congress. 
 $ presence in Congress was looked 
 wd to with pride, with joy and with 
 . Eloquent, courageous and vigor- 
 n intellect, he would have made his 
 heard and his intellect felt in the 
 of Congress, where brave and true 
 sentatives of the South are so 
 iueeded. He was oneof the most 
 nt among the officers of the Con- 
 ate army, and since the war has 
 d a brilliant reputation as a politi- 
 titer, asa lawyer and as an orator. 
 as, during the dark and evil days 
 which we have fallen, been un- 
 ting in his devotion to the South. 
 upright man, an honest citizen, a 
 feorgian, a true Christian, a great 
 his loss will be felt throughout 
 outhern States. 
 
 [From the Columbia Carolinian.] 
 ATH OF GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT. 
 neral A. R. Wright, the talented 
 r of the Augusta CHRONICLE AND 
 
 INEL, and member elect of the 
 ad States Congress from the Highth 
 
 
 
 sia District, died at his home in 
 sta on Saturday. 
 
 Wright was a lawyer of marked 
 and had risen to a high position 
 S_ profession. At the commence- 
 of the war he enlisted as a private 
 > Third Georgia regiment and was 
 Promoted to the Colonelcy of the 
 lent. For gallant and meritorious 
 eS he was soon promoted to a 
 
 dier and then to a Major General. 
 
 eonded his troops in some of the 
 iotly contested battles of the war, 
 his coolness and intrepidity did 
 0 gain the victories or to smooth 
 
 € reverses with which our arms 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 a citizen he commanded the respect 
 steem of all who knew him, and it 
 in Georgia alone he is known, but 
 fhout our whole country the gal- 
 eneral and the talented and cour- 
 editor was known and respected. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 [From the Athens Watchman. ] 
 DEATH OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 Gen. Ambrose Ransom Wright died in 
 Augusta on Saturday morning last. This 
 announcement will be received with re- 
 gret by all our readers. We knew Gen. 
 Wright long—knew him well and es- 
 teemed him highly, ‘as, indeed, did all who 
 knew him. He had made his mark in 
 military, as well as civil service. En- 
 tering the ranks as a private, atthe com- 
 mencement of the war, he had reached 
 the high position of Major General be- 
 fore its close. Brilliant as was his 
 military career, he was perhaps more 
 distinguished as a civilian, At an early 
 period of his career he reached a com- 
 manding eminence asa lawyer, while as 
 a politician and orator his fame was 
 wide-spread. More recently he had dis- 
 tinguished himself as one of the ablest 
 editors in the State—haying held, since 
 the war, the position of editor-in-chief 
 ot the Augusta CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL, 
 one of the oldest and ablest Southern 
 dailies. 
 
 At the late election he had been 
 chosen a Representative in Congress by 
 the people of the Eighth District, un- 
 der the most flattering circumstances, 
 and had his life been spared, we doubt 
 not he would have ‘‘ illustrated Geor- 
 gia” in the U. 8S. House of Representa- 
 tives in a manner that would have 
 caused all Georgians to feel proud of 
 their champion. 
 
 Having been wounded during the war, 
 and for atime disabled from military 
 service, he was elected a member of the 
 State Senate and-chosen President of 
 that body—which position he filled with 
 distinguished ability. 
 
 He served frequently as member of 
 District, State and National Conven- 
 tions. We remember he was a member 
 of the Philadelphia Conveution of 1866 
 and of the late Baltimore Convention. 
 At the time of his death he was a mem- 
 ber of the National Democratic Execu- 
 tive Committee, and previously served 
 several years on the State Executive 
 Committee. : 
 
 Gen. Wright was cut down in the 
 prime of his usefulness, and his career 
 serves as an illustration of the truth that 
 
 “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.) 
 
 In common with the people of Geor- 
 gia, we deeply mourn and lament the 
 loss of one of her noblest sons. 
 
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 [From the Americus Republican.] 
 DEATH OF GENERAL A. R WRIGHT. 
 
 The death of this very able and promi- 
 nent son of Georgia is as unexpected as 
 it is sad. We had noticed the account 
 of his illmess, but from our knowledge 
 of his robust health and powerfui con- 
 stitution, together with his prime of 
 manhood, we were shocked and sur- 
 prised to hear that the sickness had 
 terminated fatally. His death at this 
 particular time is a great loss to the 
 State. Having just been elected to Con- 
 gress over two competitors by a most 
 flattering majority, we were anxious to 
 see him take his seat, and maintain the 
 dignity and spirit of the State with that 
 fearlessness in the councils of the na- 
 tion that had always marked and char- 
 acterized his career on the hustings and 
 in the forum. 
 
 He entered the service of the Confed- 
 erate States asa private, but was elected 
 to the Colonelcy of the Third Georgia 
 Regiment on the final organization of 
 that command. In that capacity he 
 served during the first year of the war, 
 until he was promoted to the rank of 
 Brigadier General. He was then as- 
 signed to the command of a brigade, 
 which, for acts of gallantry, unflinching 
 courage and bold and dashing charges, 
 was not surpassed in the Army of North- 
 ern Virginia. The reputation that this 
 command sustained, as fighting ma- 
 terial, was owing, to a great extent, to 
 the bold, fearless and aggressive spirit 
 he inspired his troops with by his own 
 dashing and determined character. 
 
 He had filled some position of trust 
 and importance in his Congressional 
 District for over twenty years. Being 
 only forty-seven years of age at the time 
 of his death, he entered his political 
 career early in life, and always managed 
 to sustain himself as a debater and par- 
 liamentarian with credit and honor. 
 
 As a stump orator, he had madea 
 reputation of being one of the boldest, 
 ablest and most effective speakers in the 
 State ; as a lawyer, his rank was among 
 the first ; as a writer and editor, he 
 wielded a pen strong, pungent, and, at 
 times, caustic. 
 
 His death is a public calamity, and 
 wesincerely and deeply regret the loss. 
 
 / [From the Fairfield (S. C.) Herald.] 
 DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED MAN. 
 
 Sunday’s dispatches contain the sad 
 announcement of the death of General 
 A. R. Wright, of Augusta, Ga., one of 
 
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 a 
 
 the editors of the CHRONICLE ANZ 
 TINEL, and a member elect of 
 Congress from the Eighth Di 
 Georgia. General Wright was 
 known throughout the South a 
 liant writer, a fearless soldier, t 
 able lawyer and politician, and th e 
 of his untimely demise will be 1 
 with profound regret in every or 
 where his fame had reached. 
 has lost a son of whom she might 
 be proud, and the South one of her 
 devoted defenders. The Southern 
 too, has seen one of its brightes 
 set forever upon earth. 
 Peace to his ashes! 
 [From the Union and Recorder 1 
 DEATH OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT, 
 On last Saturday the report rea 
 our city that Gen. Wright was dead 
 as we could not trace the report & 
 source, we hoped it would prove ne 
 rect, but on Monday the report was e 
 
 firmed. Gen. Wright has for 1 
 years been a prominent man in G 
 As a lawyer and politician, an edi 
 a soldier, he ranked high. Butasg 
 time before his death ie was elected 
 Congress from the Highth Congressio: 
 District, and had he lived to have 
 his seat in Congress he would no ¢ 
 have been one of the boldest defer 
 of Georgia in that body. All who sery 
 with him in the Confederate army g) 
 him the credit of being a brave soldi 
 [From the New York Herald.] _ 
 AMBROSE R. WRIGHT. zz 
 
 By telegram from Augusta, Ga. 
 der date of yesterday, we were inf 
 last night of the occurrence of th 
 of General Ambrose Ransom Y 
 one of the editors of the CHRrontc 
 SENTINEL hewspaper and membe 
 to Congress from the Highth Dis 
 Georgia. 
 General Wright expired at h 
 dence, in Augusta, at an early h 
 the forenoon. He was carried 
 general debility, resulting from 
 tack of nervous fever, which e 
 upon him, with more or less se 
 during a period of three week 
 was an exceedingly popular man, 
 some - extent, a representative 
 of rare abilities. His death cause 
 profound grief and is mourned 
 out the State asa public calami 
 the reason that he was distinguis 
 alike by his military record, his le 
 attainments, political ability 
 social amenities. General Wrigh 
 
 forty-seven years of age. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 From the Savannah Republican,] 
 
 ‘4. R. WRIGHT IS DEAD.” 
 few the words, and how rapid 
 ight over the telegraph line ! 
 yet these few words announce to 
 orld that a great heart has ceased 
 sat, and the light of an intellect lost 
 forever. 
 pon no one in Georgia at this crisis 
 8 the eyes of her people resting 
 hopefully than upon the distin- 
 ed dead. 
 at, we thank God, he well knew be- 
 he died how great the admiration 
 espect of the people of the State 
 or her chivalrous soldier and bril- 
 statesman. ‘ 
 lies in his grave, but he is wrapt 
 love of the people of his District 
 s winding sheet—a people second 
 e in moral and intellectual quali- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ' ‘monarch ever lay in more solemn 
 e than Georgia’s noble son. 
 ejewels that glittered on his coffin 
 vere the tears of a bereaved people. 
 nton Stephens is gone, and A. R. 
 tis dead ! 
 y heavily has the hand of God 
 upon us this year. But let us 
 the old Patriarch, humbly and 
 tly, “If I am bereaved, I am be- 
 .”- Unless Thee teach us charity 
 ove for the living, hew unavailing 
 ese bitter lessons. 
 jewels are falling one by one from 
 wn. True, Time may replace 
 with others as bright, but they are 
 he ones we have so long watched 
 
 ; 
 
 eof our time honored statesmen 
 
 hat deep ocean we must sail so soon ;” 
 
 indful of these sudden, bitter 
 , let us touch even their frailties 
 ors with loving and reverent 
 And, if in the strife of conflict- 
 ions we by chance wound them, 
 en to make atonement while 
 excuse may fall on living ears. 
 he name of the people of Glynn 
 who loved and honored General 
 I humbly lay this tribute on his 
 “GLYNN.” 
 wick, December 25, 1872. 
 
 dand thoughtful on the melancholy 
 
 [From the Farmer and Gardener.] 
 GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 It is with no ordinary sorrow that we 
 announce to our readers the death of 
 General A. R. Wright. Passing away 
 from earth on the morning of the 21st 
 instant, he has left behind him a name 
 which shall be remembered when he has 
 returned to dust, and a fame which shall 
 live forever upon the altars of Constitu- 
 tional Government. A man of strong 
 convictions, he did whatever his hand 
 found to do with a will. Of intense 
 feeling, he most earnestly defended the 
 rights of the South whenever and 
 wherever they were assailed, and most 
 royally did he perform the task. LEar- 
 nestly desirous of the prosperity of his 
 section, he gave the entire weight of his 
 name and influence to the cause of Ag- 
 riculture. It had no readier friend than 
 
 | Wright, no more potent advocate than 
 his pen, no more stirring music than his 
 tongue. We mourn his loss as a nation 
 and a people. In the halls of Congress, 
 | to which he had been elected, he would 
 | have illustrated Georgia in such a manly 
 and heroic way as would have demon- 
 strated to all his peculiar fitness for the 
 position, and his daring firmness in the 
 vindication of Right. But he is no 
 more. The silence of the grave rests 
 upon his brain and stops the utterance 
 of his eloquent lips. His mighty arm is 
 palsied by death, and his noble pres- 
 | ence will no more be among the people 
 | whom he loved, and whose cause was so 
 dear to his heart. His memory and his 
 example in every relation of life are left 
 to us for our guidance and imitation. 
 Let us never forget him; and who dare 
 assert that his memory will fade? Re- 
 calling, as his people do, his glory and 
 rs power, they will feel he still lives; 
 or 
 
 
 
 **He is not. dead whose glorious mind lifts 
 thine on high, 
 To live in hearts we leave behind isnot to die.” 
 
 [From the Central Georgian—Washington 
 county. ] 
 DEATH OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 No event has cast a deeper gloom 
 over this community than the death of 
 this distinguished Georgian. His so- 
 cial relations, his political affiliation, 
 and his professional connection with 
 this county, were perhaps stronger than 
 any other county outside of Richmond, 
 and the affections of the people were 
 naturally interwoven in him, with their 
 
 
 
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 great admiration of him as a man, as an 
 advocate, and as a politician. He was 
 endowed with a remarkable faculty of 
 speech, united toa remarkable quick— 
 ness of perception of the salient points 
 
 of any subject which he touched. This 
 
 remarkable faculty made him an exces- 
 sively strong debater in the forum and 
 as a nisi prius lawyer he did not have 
 a superior and we doubt if he had an 
 equal in the State. But his untimely 
 death makes it more a matter of regret 
 to his friends and admirers in this com- 
 munity in the fact that he was the 
 member elect to Congress, and their ex- 
 pectations were full with the most bril- 
 liant anticipations to see his powers 
 tried in other fields in defense of the 
 rights and liberties of his people, which 
 he himself cherished with such burning 
 and undying affection. They were con- 
 fident of his personal triumph—they 
 were sure of the victorious vindication 
 of their character, whether it brought 
 fruits or not. 
 
 [From the Sandersville (Washington county) 
 erald.| 
 
 OUR LAMENTED DEAD. 
 
 Since last the Herald visited you, 
 reader, the death angel has been at work, 
 and borne away the people’s friend—the 
 gifted lawyer, the gallant soldier, the 
 noble writer, the pride of the 8th Con- 
 gressional District—GrnrRaL AMBROSE 
 R. Wriest. After an illness of some 
 weeks, he died calmly and peacefully on 
 the forenoon of the21st December, aged 
 about 47 years. And thus hassat one of 
 the brightest stars that ever rose upon 
 this part of the political horizon. But 
 it is not our purpose now to eulogise 
 our friend. ‘To others more competent 
 be this sad pleasure. 
 
 When, as it were, borne upon a pass- 
 ing breeze, the rumor reached Sanders- 
 ville that Gen. Wright was dead, no one 
 could believe it. Neighbor asked neigh- 
 bor if he had heard the report, and part- 
 ed hoping ’twas not true. At last came 
 the fatal telegram. Tootrue. Andsad- 
 ness, like a pall, settled over the hearts 
 of all. 
 
 Can it be that this noble man is gone 
 from us forever? That his manly form 
 shall never grace the halls of justice, or 
 his eloquent tongue plead for the right 
 and give utterance to thoughts that 
 breathe and words that burn? Mother 
 earth claims her own; in the hearts of his 
 countrymen will ever live his noble vir- 
 
 | of the one and all the ornate and 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tues, while basking in the sunlight 
 rests from its labors the redeemed 
 of him so honored and so beloved, 
 
 [From the New York World, 27 fh. 
 
 In the death of General A. R. Wri 
 who expired at Augusta, Ga., o 
 morning of the 21st instant, the § 
 sustains a very great loss. There 
 man in that country whose p 
 usefulness was brighter, and 
 ticipations were entertained, notal 
 his native Georgia but in other 
 ill-treated commonwealths of the Sot 
 that when his voice was heard iy 
 Forty-third Congress, to which he 
 just, been elected, the people o 
 United States would learn that a 
 traditional fire, energy and eloquence 
 the South of happier days sur 
 General Wright had been a gooé 
 valiant soldier of the Confederac 
 lawyer he was that rare but ad 
 compound of the advocate 
 judge, with all the dispassionate acun 
 
 ing oratory of the other; as a po 
 he was true as_ steel to the prine 
 constitutional liberty. In ever 
 of view he was a truly represe’ 
 Southerner, and his utterances i 
 gress, had he been spared to 
 them, would have faithfully de 
 his people. The true, long-stifle 
 of the outraged and bleeding 
 would have been at last heard 
 fulfillment of this high destiny 
 so well fitted for its accomplishm 
 not, however, been vouchsafed. 
 old leaders of the South are sile 
 new generation, who poured o 
 blood of their earlier manhood 
 Confederate armies, and in their 
 age were maturing and ripeni 
 day into vigor and excellence, 
 lost in his death a chieftain 
 them, and itis not surprising 
 
 
 
 such aloss, so sudden and so 
 Georgia and her sister States are 
 fully conscious of still another 
 bereavement and trial. 
 
 General Wright was born in 
 Jefferson county, Georgia, and w 
 sequently at the time of his 
 the full prime of life. In perso 
 tall and stately, of dignified den 
 and bearing, with a sense of pow 
 manly vigor ever,present in the flas 
 a steady and determined eye. Peril 
 ally he was a noble specimen of 
 Saxon type of manhood, and intelles 
 
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 had the hardy good sense and the 
 sing self-equipoise which are the 
 al characteristics of the same blood. 
 7 in life he came to the bar, andhad 
 a distinguished position before the 
 ‘When this broke out he instantly 
 4d his services, and rose rapidly till 
 pened the rank of Major General, 
 ipating in all the more sanguinary 
 desperate conflicts of Loe’s army, 
 more than once pouring out his 
 | upon the field. Since the war 
 has been perhaps no man in Geor- 
 unquestionably now the leading 
 ‘of the South, who has been so oft- 
 mored with important and delicate 
 etrusts. Everything the punitive 
 ation of Congress permitted was 
 him by the people, and as soon as 
 mnesty act rendered him eligible 
 8 chosen to Congress by a hand- 
 Majority over the Admunistration 
 date and an independent Democrat, 
 on-in-law of ex-Senator Toombs. 
 emoment of victory, however, so 
 yon and so well deserved, he was 
 \away. The sun which had just 
 , as it were, the clouds from his fu- 
 only lighted the pathway to his 
 
 . 
 hy 
 
 ANDERSVILLE, December 25, 1872. 
 
 thaps no event since the war has 
 assed the people of this section 
 f the State generally with sucha 
 of profound sadness as the death 
 is distinguished soldier, patriot, 
 aman and orator. His loss is simply 
 arable. From the mountains to 
 eaboard, from the Savannah to the 
 fahoochee, it is regarded as a public 
 W mysterious indeed are the ways 
 ovidence—how inscrutable are its 
 8 ? In the very zenith of his 
 ectual vigor ; in the very bloom of 
 hysical manhood ; in the very hour 
 | tardy justice had acknowledged 
 igh claims, and paid tribute to his 
 t, he has been cut down by re- 
 @less disease, and now sleeps 
 le silent tomb. It is impos- 
 , im any one simple and imper- 
 
 
 
 Wright, were we even qualified todo so. 
 From early boyhood he gave promise of 
 that brilliant and successful career 
 which has been so sadly closed. Before 
 he attained the full stature of manhood, 
 was foreshadowed that striking individu- 
 ality, that inimitable sarcasm, fertile 
 wit and matchless eloquence which made 
 him so famous, aud distinguished him 
 above.all others wherever he went. He 
 was, indeed, a remarkable man, and 
 possessed elements of character and of 
 mind rarely to be met with. 
 
 With a nature peculiarly aggressive, 
 and mental powers singularly clear, 
 lucid and original, with readiness of re- 
 course, indomitable energy, and daunt- 
 less courage, he impressed all who met 
 him on the rostrum or in the forum that 
 he was a ‘‘foeman worthy of their 
 steel.” Bold, vigilant, ingenious and 
 faithful in the conduct of his Gauses at 
 the bar, with a judgment of men and a 
 discrimination never surpassed, he early 
 achieved that distinction as an advo- 
 cate which at once excited the admira- 
 tion and enthusiasm of his friends, and 
 commanded the respect of his adversa- 
 ries. 
 
 Nothing seemed to daunt or discour- 
 age him ; difficulties which would appal 
 and demoralize others, served but to 
 sharpen his faculties, and intensify his 
 energy, and he would brush away ob- 
 stacles from his path as lightly and 
 easily ‘‘as the spirit of the storm cloud 
 throws vapor from the sky.” With a 
 wonderful versatility he combined in 
 rare and exquisite harmony the qualities 
 of the contemplative statesman with 
 those of the brilliant orator and ready 
 writer. 
 
 His skill in the minute details of busi- 
 ness was not extended or acquired at 
 the expense of comprehensive views, 
 or general powers. He grappled with 
 great questions of law with a readiness 
 and facility which astonished those of 
 
 ketch, to do justice to the character | his friends who were familiar with his 
 
 qualities 
 
 of Ambrose Ransom | habits and knew how litile time his 
 
 
 
arduous and manifold duties gave him 
 for study and preparation. In the dis- 
 play of those forensic powers which 
 ‘made him peerless in the court room, 
 while he adorned his oratory profusely 
 with all the rich decorations of rhetoric, 
 he fortified himself with invincible 
 logic and masterly argumentation, for 
 though he always ‘‘cultivated the 
 foliage,” he never did so ‘“‘to the pre- 
 judice of the fruit.” In the language 
 of Macaulay, he had a _ wonderful 
 talent ‘‘for packing thought close and 
 ' rendering it portable.” He com- 
 bined readiness with research, gravity 
 with humor and pleasantry, and stern 
 decorum with brillianey and wit. In 
 the midst of great excitement and con- 
 fusion, his demeanor was cool and col- 
 lected. How forcibly has his serene 
 and placid countenance impressed the 
 casual observer at the very moment he 
 was gathering his strength for the in- 
 tellectual struggle ; once upon his feet 
 and confronting his adversary, 
 changed his demeanor, how mobile and 
 expressive the face just so stoical and 
 indifferent; how commanding his physi- 
 cal presence, how impressive his ges- 
 ticulation. It was then that his whole 
 nature seemed aroused, then that light- 
 nings flashed from his eye, and like 
 Pericles ‘this tongue was armed with 
 thunder.” 
 
 Wright was no less distinguished as a 
 soldier than he was as a lawyer and 
 statesman. Early in his brilliant mili- 
 tary career he gaye evidence of an apti- 
 tude for the field, and displayed an ex- 
 ecutive ability which made ‘him after- 
 wards so prominent among our Southern 
 heroes who went forth to battle for the 
 Lost Cause. Emotions of no ordinary 
 nature must stir the heart of every true 
 Georgian in recalling his chivalric deeds 
 and unexampled heroism. Among the 
 gallant sons of our noble State who ral- 
 lied around that never to be forgotten 
 banner—the red, white and blue—the 
 name and fame of Wright will go down 
 
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 how | 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to history in imperishable honor 
 nown. It is true that a eruel 
 consigned him to an untimel 
 the memories which cluster ab 
 
 gallant deeds will live foreve 
 hearts of his countrymen. 
 
 ‘On fame’s eternal camping g 
 His silent tent is spread, ‘ 
 
 And glory guard’s with solemn 
 The bivouac of the dead.” 
 
 With Wright’s private charac 
 qualities, none were better acq 
 than the writer of this feeble tr 
 his memory, and however im 
 this sketch, it is an offering u 
 altar of a sacred friendship, thet 
 of which finds us lingering 1 
 shrine, how worthless soever may 
 offering which we bring to it. 4 
 casual observer, Wright’s el 
 might haye seemed harsh at tip 
 his nature cold and repelling, bu 
 was there a greater mistake; the 
 formed this unjust estimate eith 
 no knowledge of his noble na 
 took their opinions from men 1 
 no more acquaintance with it thar 
 selves. His was a decided chara 
 and to be misunderstood and 1 
 strued is the natural and legiti 
 heritage of all such men. 
 
 He was a stranger to dissimula 
 and detested hypocricy to such at 
 that even for the attainment of his 
 bitious aspirations, the word policy 
 unknown to his vocabulary. Hi 
 tachments were stong and per nai 
 and when he found a friend he © 
 pled him with hooks of steel.” 
 
 He was eminently brave and inti 
 and like most brave men, he was + 
 and sincere. * 
 
 His nature was characterized 
 personal reserve, but beneath 
 exterior, and oftentimes frigid 
 or, beat as warm and true a hea 
 throbbed in the human breast. — 
 
 Tis true he had his faults; but w 
 us have them not. ‘‘He that is 
 sin among you let him cast # 
 stone.” His faults have been 
 
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 ay 
 
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 23 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 m, and many though they may 
 been, he had virtues enough to 
 adow them all. 
 
 t speak no more of his renown, 
 
 y your earthly fancies down, 
 
 in yon lonely graveyard leave him. 
 
 d accept him, Christ receive him.” 
 
 ia WASHINGTON. 
 TLANTA, GA., December 27, 1872. 
 rs Chronicle & Sentinel : 
 
 nay be said, and truly, ‘‘ Death 
 a@ shining mark.” Little did I 
 when I last addressed you, that I 
 1 nevermore address the CHRont- 
 D SENTINEL with the editorial staff 
 ken. About the hour of 2 o’clock, 
 , on the memorable day of the 
 choly death of the lamented Gen. 
 Wright, Iwas attending to my 
 e of duties at my usual place of 
 88, when a friend stopped for a 
 ot, and looking in the door, said : 
 » friend, Ranse Wright, is dead.” 
 oleful announcement I shall never, 
 forget; and for sometime not a 
 sould I utter. 
 
 less than one hour after the tele- 
 had brought this sad news to 
 it , it was known by thousands, 
 vere bowed down with grief and ; 
 ind sorrow at this great loss to 
 
 
 
 ate. 
 eral Wright was truly a greatman, 
 2 true sense of that term, and, 
 ‘in all his parts, had but few su- 
 sin this or any other country. 
 istinguished military chieftain, the 
 id and able advocate, the fearless, 
 yet consciencious politician, one 
 2 ablest political writers of the 
 orator and statesman—thus, poor- 
 ressed, was the lamented dead. 
 1ough a stranger to the bereaved 
 and children of Gen. Wright, I 
 tender this my feeble testimonial 
 idolence and heartfelt sympathy to 
 in their great and irreparable loss, 
 though every Georgian must mourn 
 a yet, the crushing blow 
 fall in tenfold more severity on 
 of his own beloved ones than upon 
 tside world. The death of no man 
 orgia would have caused more 
 € resret in this city than has been 
 d expressed in the loss of this dis- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 tinguished son of our beloved old Com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 The people here felt the need of able 
 statesmen in Congress since the war 
 from the Southern States, and especial- 
 ly have we felt this necessity in Geor- 
 gia, and the people all over the State 
 were rejoiced to know that Gen. Wright 
 was to represent us in the councils of 
 the nation for some years; but, alas, for 
 all human hopes and human expecta- 
 tions, we were doomed to disappoint- 
 ment, aod our fond anticipations have 
 been blasted. Ex-Goy. Crawford, Lin- 
 ton Stephens and now General A. R. 
 Wright, all these in one brief year from 
 the same section of the State have 
 passed from earth, but left bright re- 
 cords behind. JAW de 
 
 Editors Chronicle and Sentinel : 
 
 Permit me to drop the sprig of friend- 
 ship upon the bier of the departed. It 
 has been the good fortune of the writer 
 to have long known the departed and 
 lamented Wright, and I knew him only 
 to love his social virtues, and revere his 
 intellectual gifts. Sudden, as well as 
 sad, is the stroke that to-day not only 
 clothes his stricken family, but a whole 
 people in mourning for the departed 
 dead. One can searce realize the event 
 —that Gen. A. R. Wright is dead; that 
 he does not ‘‘ stu live!” 
 
 This a blow sudden, and unexpected, 
 which has fallen upon his family and his 
 many friends. How mournful the 
 thought that one around whose brow 
 there clustered so much of honor ; and 
 around whose name and character there 
 gathered so much of hope for the future 
 of our country—the expectancy of his 
 people, now lies uprooted! General 
 Wright, by the unaided strength of his 
 own mind, had spurned from his path 
 each obstacle that impeded his progress, 
 and rolled back the clouds which darken- 
 
 ed his morning marech—who, in his 
 youth of manhood, had reached an emi- 
 nence of social, military, political and 
 journalistic fame and influence which, 
 to a soulless ardent, might have seemed 
 the topmost pinnacle, but which to him 
 was but a momentary resting place, 
 

 
 from whence, with a determined will, he 
 would have, ere long, leaped into the 
 arena of our Federai forum and there 
 have lent his genius and his inflnence to 
 the calming of the troubled waves of 
 political discord which threaten to roll 
 over and bear down in their onward 
 sweep constitutional liberty, and for- 
 ever bury out of sight all that is dear to 
 an American citizen. His grand mis- 
 sion accomplished, the storm of politi- 
 cal passion lulled, he would then have 
 prepared to enjoy with his fellow-coun- 
 try men the sun of glory which would 
 have glowed around him, warming and 
 -cheering once more into life and arima- 
 tion the now down trodden-millions of 
 his native South; but 
 
 “‘Why sudden drops his crest ? 
 The shaft is sped, the arrow’s in his breast.” 
 
 Death here cannonized a noble name, 
 and the seal of the sepulcher must for- 
 ever exclude from its slumbering tenant 
 the breath of envy. The flowers, the 
 birds, the waves, thousand melodies of 
 vernal life, and nature, will come back, 
 
 but he of whom we write will return no | 
 
 more! 
 
 The death of Gen. Wright at this time 
 is truly felt, not only asa calamity to his 
 State, but to his country. It was buta few 
 brief days ago that he was elected as a 
 Representative to the Forty-third Con- 
 gress of the United States. But the ex- 
 
 pectaney of his constituency and his; 
 
 State now liescold in death. May the 
 lesson here taught usin the death of one 
 who had not yet reached the zenith of 
 his manhood, and yet so honored and 
 beloved, uot be lost upon us. May it 
 make us less ambitious for the honors 
 and fame of this world,.which so soon 
 fade and pass away. 
 ** The boast of heraldy, the pomp of power, 
 And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er 
 gaye, 
 Await alike, the inevitable hour— 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave !” 
 
 To his stricken family, in this their 
 hour of sad bereavement and irrepara- 
 ble loss, I would fain drop the tear of 
 heartfelt sympathy and condolence for 
 the loss of one around whom there clus- 
 tered the joys and affections of the past 
 and the hopes of the future ; but whose 
 great mission isnow done, and, with the 
 myriads that have gone before him, lies 
 amid the cold and broken pinions of 
 thedead, there, there to sleep! But it 
 is the sleep that awaits the resurrection 
 morn, when the trumpet of the Arch 
 
 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Angel shall awaken all to that o 
 tune around the Throne of God, 
 husband and wife, father an 
 shall bask ip the sunlight of Hi 
 for ever more ! C. Cu 
 
 Washington, D. C., Dee. 22d, 1 
 
 ee Ga., December 97, 
 
 At a meeting of the old “ 
 Guards,” held to-day, for the pu 
 taking action in regard to the de 
 General A. R. Wright, of Augus' 
 H. C. Billups was called to the 
 and J. P. Dorsey requested to 
 Secretary. 
 A committee, consisting of 
 Mitchell, G. H. Palmer, S. D. Mi 
 J. S. Williford and M. G. 
 were appointed to offer resoluti 
 the action of the meeting. 
 ‘The committee, through their 
 man, offered the following resolut 
 
 Wuereas, General Ambrose ; 
 Wright has ‘recently departed © 
 we, the surviving members of Com 
 “K, ” Third Georgia Regiment, o1 
 regiment General Wright was. he 
 nal Colonel, deeming it our dut 
 melancholy pleasure to present th 
 tribute, to his memory as a citiz 
 soldier. as a statesman and patel 
 as a lawyer, do adopt the fol 
 resolutions: 
 
 1st. That in the death of 
 Wright, Georgia has lost a citize 
 whom we all had an interest 
 death of him who stood at the heac 
 one of our leading political joum 
 and contributed so largely in direc 
 the political sentiment of the Sta 
 indeed a loss for which we as a pe 
 appropriately mourn. 
 
 2d. That no braver soldier evel 
 his blood beneath ‘“‘the starry eros 
 the Lost Cause,” and when ages 
 have rolled on, the descendants off 
 ern soldiers will revere his men 
 a hero in the strife for constit 
 liberty. 
 
 3d. That as astatesman andap 
 Georgia and this country has] 
 great man—one who has ever dei 
 the liberties of the people in thei 
 on the hustings, in deliberative 
 blies, and on the sanguinary 
 battle, and one whose clarion voi 
 not death silenced it, would have bs 
 
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 ry 
 
 
 
 hin the halls of the next Con- 
 in the vindication of the right, 
 
 sistance to the wrong. 
 
 [hat as a lawyer, he possessed 
 are attributes which make men 
 eloquent—viz: the intellect to see 
 mth, the heart to feel the truth, 
 
 courage to speak the truth.— 
 thas, that intellect has ceased its 
 ing on earth; that heart, which 
 feel another’s woe,” now slum- 
 eneath the sod; and that voice, so 
 neard in the cause of humanity 
 ice, is hushed in the stillness 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 That we tender to the family of 
 ral Wright the heartfelt condolence 
 mrades ina holy cause. 
 
 hat a copy of these proceedings 
 warded to the family, and that 
 s be furnished the Athens and Au- 
 ‘papers, with the request that they 
 
 sh them. A. L. MircHetn, 
 
 : Chairman. . 
 resolutions were unanimously 
 4 H. C. Bruters, 
 
 . Chairman. 
 4 Dorsey, Secretary. 
 
 
 
 ite of Respect to the Memory of 
 . Ambrose Ransom Wright. 
 
 Bis morning, a few minutes be- 
 shour for the Superior Court to 
 e, at the suggestion of Hon. Wm. 
 
 mild, the members of the Bar met 
 
 ean jury room. 
 
 ing the Chair, Judge Gould stated 
 
 he object of the meeting was to re- 
 
 the report of the committee ap- 
 | at the adjourned October term 
 
 Jourt to draw up resolutions rela- 
 
 the death of General A. R. 
 
 and asked if said committee 
 
 teady to report. 
 
 ponding, Hon. H. W. Hilliard, 
 
 an of the committee, presented 
 
 wing preamble and resolutions : 
 
 REAS, In the order of Divine 
 dence, Gen. Ambrose R. Wright, a 
 r of ‘this Bar, has been removed 
 resent world, we, his associates, 
 
 ¥ to pay atr bute to his memory, 
 ae adopt the following resolu- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wed, Thatin the death of Gen. 
 at ‘the Bar has sustained a loss 
 'we feel with deep sensibility. 
 
 
 
 '2. Resolved, That we recognizein the 
 eminence attained by Gen. Wright the 
 result of the possession of fine natural 
 abilities, commendable diligence and 
 extraordinary energy; that he was a 
 shining example of the success which 
 follows the vigorous prosecution of the 
 legal profession, and that at the time of 
 his death he had reached the enviable 
 summit from which he could look for- 
 ward to years of useful and honorable 
 labor. 
 
 3. Resolved, That asa mark of respect 
 to the memory of our deceased brother, 
 
 we will wear the usual badge of mourn- 
 
 ing for thirty days. 
 
 4. Resolved, That his Honor Judge 
 Gibson be requested to order these reso- 
 lutions to be entered on the minutes of 
 the Court ; that a copy be furnished to 
 the family of Gen. Wright ; and that 
 they be published in the city papers. 
 
 On motion of Hon. W. Hope Hull, 
 the resolutions were unanimously adopt- 
 ed. 
 
 In open Court, Judge Gould an- 
 nounced the action of the meeting of 
 the members of the Bar, in adopting 
 resolutions expressive of their sense of 
 loss to. the profession in the death of 
 General Wright. 
 
 REMARKS OF HON. H. W. HILLIARD. 
 Hon. H. W. Hilliard presented the 
 resolutions to the Court, and, moving 
 their adoption, said: 
 
 May it Purase Your Honor—There 
 are many gentlemen here who were ac- 
 quainted with General Wright longer 
 than myself. But my acquaintance with 
 him began before I came to this Bar. 
 When I was actively engaged in politi- 
 cal life I met General Wright at a great 
 popular convention in Atlanta, and 
 from that time to the day of his death 
 our intercourse was never interrupted. 
 There was all the time an interchange of 
 those marks of esteem which I believe 
 that he uniformly entertained for me, 
 and which I certainly felt for him. 
 
 I concur in the language of the reso- 
 lution which speaks of Gen. Wright as 
 having attained an eminence from which 
 he would look forward to long years of 
 useful and honorable labor. Certainly 
 one of the noblest and most satisfactory 
 results of life is to reach a position 
 where our labors may be useful to man- 
 kind, and acquire honorable distinction 
 
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 for ourselves. And I know no field of 
 secular employment where one may hope 
 to accomplish this most desirable and 
 fortunate position so successfully as in 
 the pursuit of the profession which en- 
 gaged the talents of the distinguished 
 gentleman to whose memory we propose 
 to pay a tribute to-day. 
 
 Some one has said that the science of 
 government is the only subject within 
 the range of human pursuit worthy of 
 the attention of a man. There is so 
 close a connection between the profes- 
 sion of a lawyer, and that of a states- 
 man that we might consider the claim 
 of the study of government, broadly as 
 it is stated, without doing any injustice 
 to our honorable profession. To uphold 
 good government is a proper task for 
 a lawyer, and such tasks have en- 
 gaged lawyers in all the successive 
 periods of human history, since con- 
 stitutional liberty first appeared in the 
 progress of civilization. 
 
 Hooker says most eloquently that 
 “Law has her seat in the bosom of} 
 God, and her voice is the harmony of 
 the Universe.” 
 
 Surely we cannot contribute better to- 
 wards the harmony of the world than by 
 giving our support to good government. 
 Yo, maintain law is to help to uphold 
 the political institutions which protect 
 a free people. 
 
 To say thus of our departed brother, 
 that he was a lawyer of noble aims and 
 high attainments, is to give him great 
 praise. 
 
 Gen. Wright was well known for the 
 energy with which he pursued his pro- 
 fession, and the fidelity with which he 
 adhered to the rights of his clients. 
 
 I might speak of the distinctions 
 which he attained in political and mili- 
 tary life, but I limit myself to this brief 
 notice of him as a member of the Bar. 
 
 REMARKS OF HON. J. B. CUMMING. 
 
 Hon. J. B. Cumming, in seconding 
 the motion of Mr. Hilliard, spoke as 
 follows: 
 
 May rr PrEsse Your Honor—lI rise to 
 second the request made by my Brother 
 Hilliard, that the resolutions reported 
 from the Bar be spread upon the min- 
 utes of the Court. This request will be 
 granted as a matter ofcourse. There 
 seems, therefore, no occasion to say any- 
 thing more. My excuse for remarks in 
 themselves superfiuous is, that the man 
 to whom these proceedings relate I 
 
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 v4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 greatly admired, and I find it diff 
 remain silent when it is proper to. 
 of him. For weeks after his deg 
 press of the State teemed with | 
 editorial and communicated, eve 
 that event; and journalists in 
 States wrote well and eloquently 
 distinguished dead. It would 
 cult to add anything to what w: 
 then, and has been so well said h 
 morning. Nevertheless, in resj 
 an impulse of my own heart, I 
 ture to speak to the resoluti 
 only to say that I heartily 
 
 them. I shall not weaken 
 words of praise I may speak of ¢ 
 tinguished departed by using t 
 guage of extravagent eulogy. 
 not claim for him perfection. — 
 a man and had his share of man’ 
 and infirmities. It was not b 
 was exempt from these that we > 
 him when living and now seek to 
 him dead; but because with the 
 common to all, he had in an 
 mon degree intellectual and mora 
 ties of the highest order. He 
 soaring intellect, a lofty courage, 
 gift of eloquence, an untiring d 
 to his country. More than th 
 had another gift, not often foun 
 with these qualities—what I wor 
 the gift of leadership—that gift, 
 and not to be analyzed, whi 
 spires some men and enables 
 to lead their fellow men, to 
 or restrain them. I myself 
 seen the distinguished 
 play this quality on one nota 
 casion, and without reference t0 
 broader and historic field of his la 
 I know of two other occasions i ¥ 
 he exercised the same gift in th 
 
 munity to the prevention of riot, I 
 shed and disgrace. But all thes 
 gifts have been laid low, and we 
 seek to honor his memory. As fle 
 down upon that commanding fo: , 
 pared for its last abode, envelope 
 that uniform, of any wearer of whi 
 is sufficient honor to say, as we 
 of this one, that he wore it ¥ 
 when I thought of the strugegli 
 succeeded by the manhood of 
 withits fullshare of ambitious 
 disappointments ; when I thou 
 
 cea 
 
 when I thought of his brilli 
 with tongue and pen in the da; 
 oppression; when I thought 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 j 
 s and his disappointments crowned 
 gecess, and the crown suddenly 
 othe dust, I but experienced 
 nmon sentiment of every heart 
 at occasion, that seldom has there 
 ened an event comprising so many 
 astances of profound sadness. 
 . may it please your Honor, while 
 ent, let no one be so unreason- 
 presumptious as to pity the 
 ed dead. It has been said ina 
 se older than our own that no 
 ean be pronounced happy until 
 of his death. As I in- 
 this saying, its meaning 
 Ss: however fortunate a man 
 appear and be, to-day and to-mor- 
 any judgment pronouncing him 
 would be premature before he 
 d beyond the fearful vicissitudes 
 environ life and reputation. For- 
 to-day, he may be overwhelmed 
 ow. Rich to-day in the posses- 
 of unblemished reputation, to- 
 ycalumny, or temptation unresist- 
 aay rob him of that, without which, 
 poor indeed. Friends, fortune, 
 od name may forsake aman in a 
 , and so long as he is exposed to 
 mities he cannot be pronounced 
 _ Where will he be beyond their 
 ave in an honored, grave ? Such 
 has been reached by our depart- 
 d, and now, for the first time, 
 tossed upon the dangerous sea 
 but having cast anchor in an 
 d grave, we may venture to hope 
 what we cannot say of any of 
 es—he is happy. 
 
 SPONSE OF JUDGE WM. GIBSON. 
 
 Honor Judge Gibson, in response, 
 red the following touching, elo- 
 it and deserved eulogy: 
 
 poking over the venerable, the 
 ) aged, the young, the bright 
 of professional brethren of the 
 a Circuit, one of the brightest 
 ls in her coronal is missing. The 
 manly form, intellectual and 
 ung face, bright and flashing eye 
 
 neral Ambrose Ransom Wright 
 meyer more be seen amongst us. It 
 d. Yea, very sad, to think we shall 
 ~ more behold him here. Never 
 isten to his clarion voice in this 
 Never again receive the warm and 
 sreetings of his pure and gener- 
 
 was mortal of General Wright 
 
 
 
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 now lies in calm repose beneath his na- 
 tive soil. 
 
 The great spoiler, Death, approached, 
 and neither medical skill, fervent pray- 
 er, tender, watchful and _ affectionate 
 care, nor the gushing, burning tears of 
 a devoted wife and children could stay 
 his relentless hand. He who had brave- 
 ly met dangers in every conceivable 
 form, calmly and peacefully, on the 21st 
 day of December, 1872, in the prime 
 and vigor of physical and mental man- 
 hood, with a bright and prosperous 
 future before him, amidst the tears and 
 sorrows of an entire community, passed 
 from t me into an endless eternity atthe 
 bidding of the remorseless Reaper. 
 
 For a quarter of a century, in times of 
 peace andin times of war, it was my 
 good fortune to know General Wright. 
 I knew him when affluence and wealth 
 supplied his every want. I also knew 
 him when robbed of property and de- 
 spoiled bya relentless foe, even de- 
 barred by harsh military rule from pur- 
 suing his profession, and when a small 
 garden and afew fruit trees furnished 
 his subsistence. I have seen him on the 
 battle field, where our glorious flag 
 floated in triumphant pursuit of a flee- 
 ing foe. I have seen him amidst the 
 wounded, dead, and the dying. I was 
 with him in the camp and on the long, 
 wearisome march. I have seen him at 
 home when plenty supplied his every 
 want, andin the bivouac and onthe 
 march when even a crust of bread could 
 not be procured. Yes, I saw him 
 when defeat, starvation and ruin seemed 
 inevitable—where poor, frail human na- 
 ture is most tried and tempted, both in 
 prosperity and adversity. I have both 
 known and seen Gen. Wright under 
 trial and amidst the most trying vicis- 
 situdes, and under all the circum- 
 stances of calamity and misfortune.— 
 He was atrue man at all times and 
 under all circumstances, withstanding 
 alike the blandishments of power and 
 the frowns and threats of oppression. 
 General Wright possessed and wore no 
 mask to screen or conceal his true na- 
 ture. In the true image of his Maker he 
 stood erect; as in His immediate pres- 
 ence with no dissimulation or deception. 
 With as gentle and kind a nature as ever 
 mortal man possessed, almost divine in its 
 beauties and its tenderness, he possessed 
 no tolerance for errors intentionally com- 
 mitted. No man can say he saw and 
 approved the right, and yet the wrong 
 pursued. 
 
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 “What conscience dictates to be done 
 Or warns us not to do ~- 
 
 This, teaches more than hell toshun, 
 That, more than Heaven pursue.” 
 
 Independent in thought and action, 
 when conscious rectitude directed, he 
 yielded not to the fawning of sycophants, 
 to the seductions of wealth or to the 
 harsh biddings of the tyrant and op- 
 pressor. 
 
 At the early age of eighteen he was 
 admitted to practice law in the Courts 
 of the State, and soon established a 
 reputation in his profession which yield- 
 ed a competent support, and placed him 
 among the leaders of the bar of the 
 Middle Circuit. As an advocate he had 
 few equals. He never failed to see and 
 to present in the most vivid light the 
 strong points of his client’s cause, and 
 to make prominent the weak points of 
 his adversary. His attack was more 
 than skillful, his defense wonderfully 
 stragetic. Nature seemed to have de- 
 signed him for the profession of law, 
 and his success was truly wonderful. 
 
 Upon the stump, when a mere boy, he 
 was a foeman worthy of the best steel, 
 and with those renowned and skilled 
 gladiators, Toombs and Stephens, near 
 twenty yearsago, himself just starting 
 in his political career, on their own 
 ground and appointed places, he fully 
 sustained himself and met the most 
 Sanguine expectations of enthusiastic 
 partizans and friends. 
 
 As Senator and President of the Sen- 
 ate in our most perilous times he ex- 
 hibited singular fitness and ability for 
 a great and successful parliamentary 
 leader. 
 
 His grand military career is a part of 
 the history of Georgia, to which every 
 true man can point with pride. Enter- 
 ing the ranks as a private soldier, his 
 gallantry, intelligence and skill, his 
 aptitude for military affairs, soon 
 won for him the Coloneley of the Third 
 Georgia Regiment, at the head of which 
 command, his sagaciousness, great 
 coolness under fire, and intrepid 
 bravery on the field of battle, won for 
 him in a comparatively short time his 
 spurs as a Brigadier General. His 
 brigade was known in the Army of Vir- 
 ginia as ‘‘ Wright’s Invincible Brigade,” 
 which title it fully sustained atthe bat- 
 tles of second Manassass, Sharpsburg, 
 Chancellorsville, Fredicksburg, Gettys- 
 burg, the Wilderness, and in many en- 
 gagements in front of Richmond and 
 Petersburg and elsewhere in Virginia, 
 
 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Maryland and Pennsylvania. 
 nown in the Army of Virginia 
 to that of any commander, and 
 passed by his successes in civil 
 the list of glorious names furnis 
 Georgia from civil life, none sho 
 conspicuously than did that of Gen 
 Wright. | 
 
 well do I remember when the mz 
 Lee gave the order to advance “‘¥ 
 Invincible Brigade,” and as th 
 to double quick was given, his emphi 
 remark was, ‘‘ That charge will se 
 it.” And it did, for by nightf 
 enemy had been fully-routed an 
 Federal soldier was to be seen w 
 field of battle, except the dead, 
 wounded and the prisoners. 
 If time permitted and the oceat; 
 were opportune, I would state1 
 ous instances of the great skill 
 courage with which he handled his 
 mand in other engagements, in 
 which more Federal soldiers we: 
 tured by his command than they nj 
 bered men. | 
 Not a private soldier but rem 
 with pride and satisfaction th 
 rious shout sent along the who 
 on that ever memorable night 
 Wilderness, when Grant, with his 
 forces, withdrew from our front. 
 To enumerate his gallant and! 
 deeds upon the field of battle, 
 merous achievements, his great 
 fulness and kind care for his me 
 the march, in the camp, at the ho 
 would exhaust this occasion. 
 who knew him will attest, tha 
 dangers were greatest and bullets 1 
 est, his inspiring presence was 
 Amidst the miasmas of the his 
 Chickahominie, on Chickamicomico’ 
 dy beach, in the sterile mountain 
 of the Blue Ridge, he patiently 
 every danger and inconvenience 
 the fortitude and fidelity of a trae 
 Upon his brilliant escutcheon no (f 
 spot of dishonor isto be seen. 1 
 sword drawn by him was neyer [8 
 honored, and on the fiercest fielc( 
 carnage and strife, where the he 
 bled and the intrepid fell, there too 
 the gallant Wright, in the hottest 
 thickest of the fight, with words of ¢/é 
 for his brave comrades. All that li 
 skill could devise; all that mortal # 
 could endure; all that heroism and; 
 i) 
 
TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 —_ 
 
 y could suggest, he did for freedom 
 erty; for honor and justice. Yet, 
 e best rooted and stoutest oaks of 
 forest, beneath whose thick green 
 es tired and worn nature has been 
 shed and strengthened, are often 
 ‘down and destroyed by ruthless 
 is, so our cause was destined too to 
 Yet crushed, broken and almost 
 airing, Gen. Wright, while his life 
 d, maintained that cause’s honorand 
 m pure and unsullied. 
 - of but one pursuit in life in 
 hit can be said Gen. Wright was a 
 re, and that was in the art of getting 
 _ He possessed none of the craft to 
 | ‘The cries too of the 
 
 oc gold. 
 ring poor found a ready lodgment 
 
 is generous heart; selfishness was | 
 
 art of his nature. He was magnani- 
 ;and liberal to a fault, and too often 
 1 when he was but illy able to ren- 
 wssistance. 
 vill not invade the sacred precincts 
 me, hearth and fireside. As a hus- 
 ‘and father he was all that was 
 , generous, affectionate, devoted 
 mdulgent. This is holy ground and 
 bear, as language cannot adequately 
 ass his many noble qualities in the 
 ly circle. 
 ith the tears of his bereaved wife 
 shildren are mingled the tears of 
 itudes of his countrymen and the 
 _ of his former comrades in arms. 
 his grief and this sorrow will be 
 d with pride when memory recalls 
 williant career; and those army com- 
 § especially will rejoice that by their 
 6, their love and their esteem, their 
 mony to gallant deeds performed 
 duty nobly done, they can add a 
 leleaf to the laurel chaplet which 
 ns the patriot’s brow. 
 lesire on this occasion to add that 
 feneral Wright been spared to his 
 ‘try, his truly conservative course 
 ld have been of great use and bene- 
 yhis State. He fully comprehended 
 situation, and possessed all the firm- 
 Necessary to present and maintain 
 leWS. 
 hilst many thought him ultra, noth- 
 sh further from him. And no man 
 
 
 
 more than General Wright regretted 
 the lawlessness that at one time seemed 
 to prevail in certain sections. And 
 could he have been spared to serve us 
 in the Congress of the United States, 
 to which position he had just been elect- 
 ed by a most flattering vote, over large 
 odds and strong opposition from within 
 and without, I am assured he would 
 have proven himself fully equal to the 
 emergency, and every true lover of law 
 and order would have been made glad, 
 even to rejoicing, by his prudent, wise 
 and conservative course. 
 
 As a profession, we mourn his untime- 
 
 ly death ; as a people, we mourn be- 
 cause we are deprived of his talents and 
 his services ; as a society, because one 
 of its most unsullied members and 
 brightest ornaments has been cut off ; 
 as a friend, because that cordial hand 
 and warm, generous heart, will never 
 greet us more on earth. All human 
 hopes must fail, all mortal life must 
 perish, and greatness must fade and be- 
 come dim in the busy bustling future. 
 Temples to the living god, thrones, em- 
 pires and republics have, and must 
 crumble and fall. Our brother, our 
 friend, the husband and the father, has 
 but met the common fate of all earthly 
 existence. That wise God who numbers 
 the hairs of our head, and permits not 
 even a sparrow to fall unnoticed has, in 
 his inserutible wisdom, bidden it, and 
 into the hands of an all merciful and 
 just God we commit his immortality, 
 trusting confidently thatthe propitiatory 
 atonement of the cross is ample and 
 sufficient to save the trusting, just and 
 illustrious dead. 
 _ Confident too that as long as freedom 
 and liberty have a votary, courage and 
 true manhood an admirer, patriotism a 
 follower, the memory and name of Gen. 
 Ambrose Ransom Wright will be held 
 sacred and kept green. 
 
 Maj. Ganahl moved that’ the eulogy 
 of Judge Gibson be spread upon the 
 minutes of the Court. Adopted. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Hull, a copy was 
 
 requested for publication in the city 
 papers. 
 
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 TRIBUTES TO.THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIG 
 
 DIRGE. 
 
 Greeley and Wright. 
 
 
 
 One at life’s summit, 
 One at its base, 
 
 By the same target, 
 Closing their race. 
 
 One in life’s evening, 
 One in its prime ; 
 
 Mighty hearts beating 
 Double quick time. 
 
 Hill of ambition, 
 Toilsome to climb, 
 
 Lowlier position 
 Suits life’s decline. 
 
 Yet buoyant in feeling 
 And counting no cost, 
 
 Age, with care reeling 
 Brain overtossed. 
 
 Life partner dying, 
 
 Youth’s love all quenched ; 
 Autumn winds sighing, 
 
 Heart strings sore wrenched, 
 
 Break in their tension, 
 Cry ‘‘It is done !” 
 
 ** Vanity—vanity 
 Under the sun.” 
 
 Grief of a nation, 
 Weep at his tomb ; . 
 A goodly oblation, 
 To pour in earth's womb. 
 = * * 
 Higher and higher, 
 Man in his prime, 
 Mounted the ladder ; 
 Fame grasped in time. 
 
 Seeth no shadow ; 
 Heareth no tread, 
 
 Of coming to-morrow 
 To say ‘‘he is dead !” 
 
 Giddy the height proves, 
 Rest him awhile, 
 
 Deep are the heart grooves 
 After life’s smile. 
 
 Tell him of victory ? 
 He heareth it not ! 
 
 Life’s busy history 
 Heedeth he not ! 
 
 Kah 
 
 
 
 Gather our sackcloth ; 
 The record is true ; = 
 “What shadows weare, 
 And what shadows pursue ?” 
 
 Aveusta, December 21, 1872. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 GENERAL A. R. WRIGHT 
 opuTt 1872. bs 
 
 
 
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 Room for the great heart stilled too se 
 O, earth! upon thy sacred breast!— 
 Yet, what hath ax to do with rest, — 
 Whose course but touched its radiant Noor 
 : a 
 Tes 5 
 With half his glorious journey done, — 
 Death’s signal trumpet pierced his e 
 He bowed his head, ‘‘O Death! Ihes 
 And passed beyond our mortal sun. 
 
 : Im. ; 
 But mark how bright with vital flame 
 The ways on earth his spirit trod; 
 What though that spirit rests in God 
 To us he leaves his stainless fame: 
 
 ; IV. 
 Fame plucked from lists of carnage dr 
 Or, nurtured, when the strife did ce: 
 In civic halls, and fields of peace, 
 Whose verdant laurels crowned his head. | 
 
 ‘ y. 
 
 With double lustre ; wide and far 
 Proclaiming, lo! a chief af men ; ; 
 Who nobly wrought with sword and pen, 
 
 His guide, Truth’s cloudless Polar Star 
 
 4 
 
 VI. ; 
 
 The sword disused, had sought its sheath 
 Now drops the pen from nerveless” 
 And all around the sorrowing lands 
 
 Are cries of woe and types of death! 
 
 vu. 
 
 O, warrior! once thyself a host— ; 
 Thou still dost live, tho’ laid in dust; 
 O, thinker! thou hast left us trust 
 
 In Right and Heaven, tho’ all seem | 
 
 vin. 
 Then, while thy passionate requiem 
 A hopeful minor threads the strain 
 Whose sweetness makes less wild 
 And yearning of our last farewells! 
 Pau H. 
 
a TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 F. 
 
 SUPERIOR COURT. 
 
 
 
 
 
 urnmentin Honor of the Memory 
 Gen. A. R. Wright—Touching Tri- 
 utes by Hon. W. Hope Hull and 
 dge J. S. Hook. 
 
 The Superior Court met yesterday at 
 0 o’clock, Judge Wm. Gibson presid- 
 
 en the Court had been declared 
 ned, Hon. W. Hope Hull arose and 
 
 ouR Honor—An event has been com- 
 micated to me which it is mysad duty 
 ounce to the Court, and to my 
 fessional brethren. A distinguished 
 d honored member of this Bar—one 
 m we all loved and respected—has 
 S morning been taken from us by 
 Gen. A. R. Wright is no more. 
 e midst of his labors, in the prime 
 is manhood, and just as a new career 
 isefulness and honor was opened 
 e him, he is cut down, and all of 
 its struggles, its triumphs, and 
 onors, passes away like a Summer 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 i, with the clear intellect, the sound 
 ment, the determined will, all in 
 activity. 
 
 ‘day he lies silent and insensible, 
 no more will be seen on the platform 
 the forum, no more will take part 
 e concerns of life. 
 
 € community by whom he was so 
 | known and so highly honored, the 
 
 a labors, the struggles, 
 ies of professional life, and by 
 he was recognized a leader, must 
 ly feel the shock of this sudden 
 v I move, sir, that in honor 
 is memory, this Court do now ad- 
 n, and that a meeting of the Bar be 
 nediately called, to take suitable ac- 
 Aon the occasion. 
 
 be motion was seconded by Judge 
 pK in the following eloquent remarks: 
 
 lay ir Prease Your Honor—I rise to 
 pnd the motion of Mr. Hull, but be- 
 p doing so, permit me to say ‘that this 
 pected event fills me, as it does the 
 we community, with a sense of pro- 
 | sadness. Never was I more 
 pKed than on yesterday morning when 
 led at Gen. Wright’s residence to in- 
 e after his condition, and learned 
 
 
 
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 from a member of his family that he was 
 dying. Ihave known him, sir, all my 
 life. We were schoolmates in childhood 
 in the town of Louisville, and from then 
 until now have known him intimately, 
 and have always been impressed by his 
 superior native abilities,. energy and 
 force of character. No one who has 
 known him could fail toadmire him for 
 his talents, his marked ability and man- 
 ly valor. On every field of labor and 
 duty he has won for himself the confi- 
 dence, the admiration, and profound re- 
 spect of his fellow-citizens. How sad 
 that in the midst of so much usefulness, 
 in the prime and vigor of his physical 
 
 | and intellectual manhood, and with the 
 
 dawn of a still more brilliant future just 
 opening before him, he should be sud- 
 denly stricken down, 
 
 And all his virtue and his promise fair, 
 Should seek the grave to sleep forever there. 
 
 It is known to us all (and the fact gives 
 an additional mournful cast to this mys- 
 terious dispensation) that Gen. Wright 
 had just passed through an exciting 
 political campaign, in which he displayed 
 signal ability, and received a large vote, 
 whereby he was triumphantly elected to 
 fill one of the most important positions 
 in the National Council. What a: dis- 
 appointment to his friends who looked 
 forward with pride and confidence to his 
 future career upon that high arena, 
 where, they felt assured, he would add 
 fresh lustre to his already shining laur- 
 els and do noble service to the State of 
 Georgia, that had honored him as one 
 of her chosen representatives. But 
 there is still a sadder view, in which 
 our hearts compel us to contemplate 
 this mournful event, for while the 
 community is deeply moved and 
 friends mourn, there are those to whom 
 he sustained the nearest and dearest 
 relations of life, whose hearts are 
 completely overwhelmed by this, to 
 them, irreparable loss. To them he 
 was all in all—their love and pride 
 centered in him; and yet he is taken 
 from them, and their home circle is 
 made desolate. But I forbear, simply 
 invoking the consolations for that smit- 
 ten household that the great Disposer 
 of events alone can give! Itis no won- 
 der, in view of this unexpected and un- 
 timely death, and these circumstances, 
 so well calculated to awaken our ten- 
 derest symtpahies and _ sensibilities, 
 that we find this whole community 
 
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 wearing the expression of sadness and 
 deep regret. May it please your Hon- 
 or, General Wright has been stricken 
 down in the prime of his manhood 
 and with a bright future before him. 
 Let us all stand admonished that no 
 circle is exempt from the approach of 
 the grim destroyer—that neither talents, 
 nor fame, nor great usefulness, can stay 
 his hand ; and let us so act and so live 
 that when we, too, shall be summoned 
 hence, we may die, as he has died, re- 
 spected and esteemed by all who know 
 us. Isecond the motion of Mr. Hull, 
 that this Court do now adjourn. 
 
 Judge Gibson then declared the Court 
 adjourned to the 6th proximo. 
 
 
 
 Meeting of the Bar. 
 
 Aveusta, December 21, 1872. 
 
 After the adjournment of the Superior 
 Court, a meeting was held by the mem- 
 bers of the Bar, for the purpose of taking 
 some action in regard to the death of 
 General A. R. Wright. 
 
 Upon motion of Major Cumming, 
 Judge Gould was called to the Chair. 
 Mr. Hilliard moved that Davenport 
 Jackson, Esq., act as Secretary. The 
 motion was put and carried. 
 
 The Chairman then announced the 
 meeting organized. a 
 
 Whereupon Judge Hilliard arose and 
 suggested, in a few eloquent remarks, 
 Gen. Wright’s death, and moved that a 
 committee of three be appointed by the 
 Chair to draft suitable resolutions rela- 
 tive to the sad calamity, and report at 
 that meeting. 
 
 Judge Gibson offered an amendment, 
 to the effect that the report be rendered 
 at the next term of the Superior Court. 
 This amendment was accepted, and the 
 motion thus altered passed unanimously. 
 
 The Chair accordingly appointed Judge 
 Hilliard, Mr. Hope Hull and Judge Hook 
 on the Committee. 
 
 Major Cumming moved that the mem- 
 bers of the Bar attend General Wright’s 
 funeral in a body. This was also carried 
 unanimously, and the meeting then ad- 
 journed. 
 
 Wm. T. Gounp, Chairman. 
 
 Davenport JAcKSON, Secretary. 
 
 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. . | 
 
 Ata meeting of the ‘Macon Volun. 
 teers,” held at the armory of the e 
 pany, in Macon, Ga., the committee 
 pointed by Capt. George S. Jones 
 draw up suitable resolutions in rela 
 to the death of General A. R. Wri 
 made the following report, which > 
 on motion, unanimously adopted : , 
 
 The relations which in former ye 
 existed between the ‘‘Macon Volunte 
 and their gallant leader, whose su 
 death has cast a shade of sorrow 
 every patriot heart throughout our lan¢ 
 were of a nature caleulated to endear uj 
 to him in no ordinary manner. 
 
 Early in the struggle for independ 
 he drew the ‘sword, which was nei 
 sheathed until the cause he loved 
 well was lost; and from the begin 
 almost to the very end, our own | 
 corps was never called upon to face 
 enemy, or to endure the privation 
 the tented field, without having Ge 
 Wright to lead them on to victory, or 
 encourage them in the midst of 
 own hardships and their country’s di 
 asters. 4 
 
 Our General was no ordinary 
 The reputation for gallantry and 
 pline which early in the war atta 
 itself to ‘‘Wright’s Brigade” was due, 
 an eminent degree, to his untiring ¢ 
 ergy, to thestrength of his individu 
 and to the rapid development of 
 military genius which had only ne 
 ocsasion to kindle into a flame. 
 ‘‘Macon Volunteers” were proud to t 
 known as belonging to his brigade, an 
 they are proud now to remember thi 
 when well-deserved promotion necessal 
 ly sundered, to a certain extent the int 
 macy of his association with us, his i 
 terest in our welfare, as a company al 
 as individuals, never flagged for a M 
 ment. It is not the object of this repo 
 to sketch the life of the gallant warri 
 and noble statesman who has so sudde 
 ly left us, for that life has passed im 
 the history of our own State and of #1 
 country at large. 
 
 He loved Georgia and she delighted 
 honor him. He loved the people 
 Georgia, and they had but a short tir 
 since given him a striking evidence 
 their appreciation of the fact, that I 
 merit as a statesman was none the le 
 marked than his distinction as a soldi 
 and the wail of sorrow that has gone i 
 
 a 
 
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 TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. WRIGHT. 
 
 
 
 his sudden death, from the stricken 
 arts all over our wide country, gives 
 ll higher evidence of the loss that 
 mntry has sustained. 
 
 Pages might be written upon the life 
 d character of such a man, but we for- 
 ar, and would only ask in conclusion 
 submit the following resolutions : 
 Resolved, 1st. That the members of 
 > “Macon Volunteers” as a company, 
 d as individvals, have heard with pro- 
 ind sorrow of the death of their be- 
 red and gallant leader, General A. R. 
 right, and feeling as we do, that we can 
 cerely sympathize with his afflicted 
 nily—and mourning his loss to our- 
 yes and country—we offer to his 
 
 33 
 
 stricken ones all the sympathy of which 
 our hearts are capable in their great and 
 
 abiding trial. 
 
 Resolved, 2d. That this report be 
 placed upon the minutes of our Compa- 
 ny, and that the Secretary send a copy of 
 the same to the family of General Wright, 
 as a slight token of the high place he 
 occupied in the affections, and will ever 
 occupy in the memories of ‘‘the Macon 
 
 Volunteers.” 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 Lieutenant Ben B. Smrrs, 
 
 Private Tos. C. GRESHAM, 
 
 Private W. W. WRIGLEY. 
 Macon, Ga., January 11, 1873. 
 
34 _ ‘TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF GEN. A. R. ener: si. 
 
 MEMORIAL VERSES ON GEN. A. R. 
 WRIGHT. 
 
 
 
 BY ANNIE BLOUNT PARDUE. 
 
 
 
 One more gallant soldier who proudly wore 
 ‘the Gray,” 
 
 One more sturdy patriot, who kept the foe at 
 bay, 
 
 Has fallen by the wayside—the march of life 
 
 _ too long, 
 
 Has given the name true Southrons love, to 
 History and Song. 
 
 The earthly fight is over, where he bore so 
 brave a part; 
 
 Death smote, as if reluctant, to still so leal a 
 heart ; 
 
 No cannon’s roar aaa ee dreams, no drum 
 notes loud and deep 
 
 Life’s conflict closed, a sheathed his sword, 
 and calmly fell asleep. 
 
 The voice which rang in clarion tones, espous- 
 ing Freedom’s cause, 
 
 Which often woke to rapture’s pitch the multi- 
 tude’s applause, 
 
 Is hushed—like harp whose golden chords some 
 careless hand hath broke. 
 
 As yain we touch its tuneless wires sweet music 
 to invoke. 
 
 No more like liquid melody those silver tones 
 
 will roll, 
 
 And thrill, with magic power spell-bound, a 
 nation’s earnest soul, 
 
 No more the woods will echo, as of yore, in 
 party fight, 
 
 Democracy’s great rallying cry: 
 General Wright ! 
 
 “Hurrah for 
 
 The CHRONICLE is draped in black! his vigorous 
 pen is still, 
 
 And thousands who delighted to obey their 
 leader's 
 
 Will miss that hand, which fought for right, 
 and friend or foe spared not; 
 
 Which left no record here that he would “dying, 
 wish to blot.” 
 
 Perhaps he erred—as mortals will—in judgment 
 or in act, 
 
 Perhaps on impulse spoke some word cool 
 reason would retract; 
 
 But never truer patriot passed beneath the 
 chastening rod ; 
 
 Upon his heart, in gold, was graved, ‘‘My 
 Country and my God!” 
 
 Georgia has lost a gallant son—one ‘twas her, 
 pride to claim ; 
 
 Tho’ mourning in her widow’s weeds, bowed 
 down with grief, not shame, 
 
 She yet could point to one who dared defend |The fight of Faith—may he respond—b ‘ 
 
 her to the last ; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Who when the mighty wave of civil 
 high and fast, 
 
 As in the old “Third Georgia days” rang o1 
 battle cry: ; 
 
 “The Southland bleeds at every pore 
 you see her die? 
 
 Her ship is on the breakers—fierce and y 
 tempest blows— y 
 
 But ‘sink or swim’—let every son defen 
 from her foes. 
 
 “Tl cling yet to her war-worn deck while 
 frail plank remains, 
 And shed my heart’s blood—if there’s neet 
 wash away the stains ; 
 Her proud escutcheon bears to-day from x 
 ant hands who fawned 
 On her in fortune’s gala-day§; then traitore 
 pawned 
 Her honor for the dross of gain—down y 
 bastard crew ! 4 
 Rally, trwe sons, as when of yore, the ¢ 
 against the Blue. 
 While in the old land there remains one 
 of life and light y 
 Unfurl her banner to the breeze—the sau 
 Flag of Right !” q 
 
 Ambition’s fever-dream is o’er—the patr 
 heart is still! 
 
 Within a Senate’s halis those clear, comm 
 ing tones will thrill 
 
 A listening crowd no more, nor sway with m: 
 eloquence— 
 
 Georgia has one strong voice the less to p 
 in er defense. 
 
 O! fatal year that robbed the world of mal 
 sparkling gem. 
 
 Old “seventy-two” right royally has set 
 diadem ; 
 
 The ranks of learning and of science he I 
 rifled well ; a 
 
 Stars! ye were bright. and shone with power 
 yet at death's touch ye fell. z 
 
 Oh! if the ‘‘roll” were called again of ‘‘W: 
 far-famed ‘‘brigade”, 
 
 How few would answer to their names 
 many cold are laid! 
 
 In that far better land above, where wars 
 known no more, y 
 
 Their ‘‘General” will meet a host ef “b 
 boys” gone before. 
 
 In that sweet land of peace, thank Goat 
 “Blue” nor ‘‘Gray” is known ; 
 
 They kneel as brothers, linked in heart, 
 the eternal throne. 
 
 When the great roll is called of those 
 conquered in the fight, 
 
 leal, pure-hearted Wright !