CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN GREGG 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
JOHN GREGG.

John Gregg was a native of Lawrence county, Alabama.  In 1851 he 
located in Texas, where he rapidly rose to eminence as a lawyer, 
and at the early age of twenty seven was elected Judge of a 
Judicial District.  He was one of the citizens of Texas who signed 
and published the call for the Sovereign Convention which passed 
the Ordinance of Secession, and was elected by that body one of 
the delegates to the Provisional Congress at Montgomery.  On the 
initiation of the war he returned to Texas and recruited the 7th 
regiment of Texas Infantry, of which he was elected Colonel.  He 
was in the capitulation at Fort Donelson on the 17th of February 
1862.  After his exchange he was made Brigadier General.  He 
participated in the defense of Vicksburg, and also at Port Hudson.  
In March 1863 he commanded in the battles of Raymong and Jackson, 
Miss.  He was wounded at Chickamauga.  He was soon after assigned 
to the command of the Texas brigade (once Hood's', afterward 
Robertson's) in Longstreet's corps, then operating in East 
Tennessee.  He participated with this corps and division in most 
of the battles of the army of Northern Virginia.  He fell in the 
battle of New Market road.  The crowning glory of his military 
career was his defense of Richmond.  John Gregg was a man of good 
literary and scientific attainments, of extensive reading, of large 
intellect and a profound thinker.
"The brave General Gregg fell at the head of his troops."    
                                          General Lee's Dispatch.