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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2967valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he served asa member of Company I, Forty-eighth'Georgia Regiment. He fought inall of the battles of General Jackson's Virginia campaign, and among themore notable may be mentioned the Battle of the Wilderness, the SevenDays' Fight before Richmonli, the second battle of Manassas, and the Battleof Gettysburg, in which laJb mentioned engagement it. was his ill fortuneto be captured, after which he was held as a Federal prisonerof war for 19!/2 months at Point Lookout and at Fort Delaware, fromwhich last mentioned prison he was released on parole after the war hadcome to its close. ' In later years he perpetuated his interests in his oldcomrades by his active and appreciative affiliation with the United Confederate Veterans. His poetical support was ever given to the democraticparty, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South, in which he served as a trustee for many years.His wife preceded him to the life eternal, her death having occurred in1910, at which time she was seventy-six years of age. Of their five children,one died in infancy, the subject of this review having been the fourth inorder of birth-; Levi is a prosperous farmer of Columbia County, as is alsoDavid F.; and Martha J. is the wife of William A. Jones, a farmer inMcDuffie County.The boyhood and early youth of Hon. Henry J. Fullbright were compassed by the conditions and activities of the home farm, and after dulyprofiting from the advantages afforded in the schools of Columbia Countyhe pursued a course of higher study in Young Harris College, an institution maintained in Towns County. At (Thomson, McDuffie County, hebegan reading law under the preceptorship of Preston B. Johnson, andhe made rapid progress in his absorption and assimiliation of the scienceof jurisprudence, with the result that he was admitted to the bar in March,1894, upon examination in the court presided over by Judge Henry C.Roney. in McDuffie County. In the same year Mr. Fullbright establishedhis residence at Waynesboro, the judicial center of Burke County, wherehe associated himself in practice with William Callaway, under the firmname of Callaway & Fullbright. This professional alliance continued fouryears, at the expiration of which Mr. Fullbright formed a partnership withJudge Phillip P. Johnson, under the title of Johnson & Fullbright, this beingone of the leading law firms of Waynesboro and Burke County for the ensuingsix years. Since 1904 Mr. Fullbright has conducted an individual lawpractice of broad scope and representative character, and he has appearedin connection with much important litigation in the various courts of thispart of the state, the while many decisive victories in vigorously contestedlaw cases have proved conclusively his resourcefulness and versatility as atrial lawyer, besides which his broad and accurate knowledge of statutory andcommon law make him a specially safe and conservative counselor. Since1912 he has served, with characteristic loyalty and efficiency, as city attorneyof Waynesboro and county attorney of Burke County.In 1906 there came distinctive evidence of the popular appreciation ofMr. Fullbright's character and ability, in that he was in that year electedrepresentative of Burke County in the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature, to which he has been returned, by flattering majorities, in each successive election since that time. He has become widely known throughoutthe state as one of its most zealous, circumspect and influential legislators,and has sjiown his characteristic capacity for hard work. He has beeninstrumental in procuring the passage of many admirable bills for theeffecting of needed reforms in court procedures and general work in thevarious state tribunals and for the publishing of needed books pertinent tothe activities of the bench and bar. He was joint author of the White pistollaw, requiring carriers of pistols and revolvers to obtain licenses; was