Ambrose Wright Generals--Georgia Confederate States of America. Army--Officers Newspapers--Ownership Men--Georgia Image of a wood engraving of Ambrose Wright, a native of Jefferson County, Georgia. He is shown from the shoulders up, facing left. Wright served as a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. In 1866 he became part owner and editor of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel newspaper, which he used to protest radical Republican policies during Reconstruction. New Georgia Encyclopedia Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division Black-and-white photographs Wood engravings (prints) http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-10010 Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-84344 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3598 Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC