Augustus Romaldus Wright (June 16, 1813 – March 31, 1891) was an American politician and lawyer, who briefly served against the United States as a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Augustus Wright was born in Wrightsboro, Georgia and attended public school in Appling.

[1] He ran as an anti-secession delegate for a seat at the Georgia Secession Convention but lost to his son in law, Francis Shropshire.

He was one of ten Georgia delegates to the Confederate Constitution Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861.

[6] U.S. President Abraham Lincoln offered Wright the position of provisional governor of Georgia in 1864 if the state withdrew from the Confederacy, which did not happen.