Ambrose Ransom "Rans" Wright

Name WRIGHT, Ambrose Ransom "Rans"
Born April 26 1826, Louisville GA
Died December 21 1872, Augusta GA
Pre-War Profession Lawyer.
War Service May 1861 Col. of 3rd Georgia, served in North Carolina and Georgia, June 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded Wright's Bde/Huger's Divn at Seven Days, commanded Wright's Bde/R H Anderson's Divn at Second Manassas, Sharpsburg (w), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, commanded Wright's Bde/Mahone's Divn at Petersburg, November 1864 Maj. Gen. and ordered to Georgia.
Post War Career Lawyer, newspaper publisher, elected to US congress but died before he could take his seat.