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WRIGHT, William Bull, poet, born in Orange county, New York, 29 September, 1840; died in Atlanta, Georgia, 29 March, 1880. After graduation at Princeton in 1859 he taught in Buffalo until 1862, when he entered the 5th New York artillery as a private. While his regiment was stationed at Fort McHenry, Maryland, he was prostrated by typhoid fever, but after his recovery he rejoined his regiment, and participated in Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah valley, he served until the end of the war, part of the time as judge-advocate, and was mustered out as lieutenant with the brevet of major. He was graduated at the New York college of physicians trod surgeons, practised medicine in orange county until 1871, and was professor of ancient languages in the normal school at Buffalo, New York, from that year until 1878, when he resigned, owing to impaired health, he was the author of "Highland Rambles, a Poem" (Boston, 1868), and "The Brook, and other Poems" (New York, 1873).
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