STATE HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE

SITE OF LAW OFFICE
GENERAL JOHN GREGG

  IN 1854-61, FAIRFIELD CIVIC AND 
POLITICAL LEADER HELPED FOUND 
FIRST NEWSPAPER.  A KEY MEMBER OF 
TEXAS SECESSION CONVENTION. 1861 
CONFEDERATE CONGRESSMAN.
  ORGANIZED 7TH TEXAS INFANTRY. 
AS BRIGADIER GENERAL, LED TROOPS
NEAR VICKSBURG AT CHICKAMAUGA.  
COMMANDED TEXAS BRIGADE.  BATTLE 
OF THE WILDERNESS.  WAS KILLED
NEAR RICHMOND, OCT 7., 1864.  GREGG 
COUNTY IS NAMED IN HIS HONOR.
  HIS WIDOW WENT IN PERSON BY 
WAGON, THROUGH BATTLE LINES, TO 
VIRGINIA TO GET HIS BODY.  LATER
SHE WAS AMONG LADIES WHOSE EF-
FORTS BEGAN U.S. MEMORIAL DAY.
                      (1965)