CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: M. T. GREGORY -  Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

M. T. GREGORY

Matthew T. Gregory, of Lindale, was born November 10, 1840, in 
Houston county, Georgia, and removed to Texas in 1878.  Enlisted in 
company B, 45th Georgia infantry regiment and served during the war 
between the States in the army of Northern Virginia, participating 
in the battles of that famous army under Gen. Robert E. Lee until 
the wind up in 1865, displaying during that four years of service 
that heroic spirit that made the Southern army the wonder and 
admiration of the world.  He was married to Miss S. F. Peppam of 
the State of his birth after receiving an honorable discharge from 
the army, removing to the Lone Star State and settled in Smith 
County where he has made an honorable name for good citizenship, 
and a progressive man in his community.  He is a stalwart Southern 
man and believes in the justness of the cause for which he so 
gallantly fought, being on the firing lines of so many hotly 
contested battle fields in the Virginia army, acting well his part 
until the Confederate flag was furled to no longer wave over the 
Southern Confederacy as a nation.