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A Maryland Governor's son is buried at a Georgia fort

Maj. Clinton Wright, the assistant adjutant-general assigned to the staff of Maj. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, died on February 23, 1818 when a keelboat struck a sawyer and pilled into the rocks of the Flint River near today’s Newton, Georgia. His body was laid to rest at Fort Scott 200 years ago this month. This article continues a special series that commemorates the 200th anniversary of the First Seminole War. Please click here to see the complete list of stories in this series. The story of Maj. Wright touches the heart even after the passage of two centuries. Clinton Wright was the son of a hero of 1776. His father, Gov. Robert Wright, commanded a company of Maryland militia during the American Revolution. The senior Wright later served in the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and as the 12th Governor of Maryland. His son entered the army from Virginia on January 19, 1813, accepting appointment as a cornet in the 2nd Regiment, U.S. Light Dragoons. The U.
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Seminole War 200th is now underway!

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The 200th anniversary of the Seminole Wars is now underway. This series of conflicts took place in Florida, Georgia and Alabama from 1817-1858. The combat phase of the Seminole War began with the Battle of Fowltown in Decatur County, Georgia, on November 21-23, 1817 and continued until the conflict was “declared” over by Col. Gustavus Loomis on May 8, 1858. No peace treaty was reached at the time, however, and the Native Americans did not reestablish formal relations with the United States until the Seminole Tribe of Florida did so in 1957 and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida followed in 1962. Most historians regard the long war as three separate conflicts: The First Seminole War (1817-1818), The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) and the Third Seminole War (1856-1858). Many Native Americans, however, consider it to have been a single conflict with occasional breaks in the fighting. To commemorate this brutal time in American history and to remember those who suffered a
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