CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS' & SAILORS' STORIES

MONTHLY FEATURE STORY

Major General David McMurtrie Gregg
2nd Division of the Cavalry Corps
Army of the Potomac
Union Army

Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart attempted to attack the Union Army from the rear on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.  The attack was coordinated with Confederate General Pickett's infantry frontal charge.  The Confederate cavalry was stopped by Union General David McMurtrie Gregg's cavalry.  This may have been the most important Union cavalry victory of the Civil War.  General Gregg participated in more than forty engagements during the Civil War.  At first, the cavalry was primarily used for screening the Union infantry in actions such as the Seven Days Battles.  At the Battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, the cavalry was held in reserve.  When Union General Joseph Hooker took command, he began to more effectively use the cavalry.  At the Battle of Chancellorsville, General Gregg's division caused a substantial amount of damage behind the Confederate Army.  In the largest cavalry engagement of the Civil War at Brandy Station, General Gregg unsuccessfully attempted to capture Confederate General Stuart's headquarters.  He did capture valuable intelligence information about the Confederate's plans to invade Pennsylvania and Maryland.  In Union General Grant's Overland Campaign, Gregg's cavalry screened the Union forces and participated in the Battle of Yellow Tavern where General J. E. B. Stuart was killed.

David Gregg resigned from the Union Army on February 8, 1865.  The only reason given for his leaving the army before the culmination of the Civil War was to return to his civilian life that had been neglected during three years of continuous field service.

The other events of David Gregg's life seem mundane.  He was born on April 10, 1833 in Huntington, Pennsylvania.  He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1855.  David Gregg served as the U.S. Consul in Prague,  Austria-Hungary for about a year.  He was elected to be the Auditor General of Pennsylvania.  He served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.  David McMurtrie Gregg died on August 7, 1916 in Reading, Pennsylvania.

OTHER SOLDIERS' STORIES
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Private Earl Adams, 152nd Indiana Volunteers, U.S.A. PICTURE
Private John Francis Alford, 53rd Alabama Cavalry, C.S.A.
Sergeant John Javie Allen, 54th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
Brigadier General Lewis Addison Armistead, Pickett's Division, C.S.A., PICTURE
Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson, Fourth Corps Commander, C.S.A., PICTURE
Private William M. Baldwin, 11th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.
Private Joseph Addison Barber, Spaights Battalion, C.S.A.
Private Thomas Benton Baxter, 1st California Cavalry, U.S.A.
General P. G. T. Beauregard, Army of the Potomac Commander, C.S.A.     PICTURE
General Braxton Bragg, Commander Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private Robert J. Brandon, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, U.S.A.
Major General John C. Breckinridge, 1st Kentucky Brigade, C.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, 1st Corps Commander, Trans-Mississippi Division, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Don Carlos Buell, Commander Army of the Ohio, U.S.A PICTURE
Major General Ambrose Burnside, Commander Army of the Potomac, U.S.A. PICTURE
Captain John Thomas Byrd, 18th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Silas Casey, Casey's Division, U.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Commander 1st Brigade, 1st Division, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Corps Commander in the Army of Tennessee, C.S.A., PICTURE    
Private James J. Cochran, 40th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
Sergeant Christian Correll, 48th Infantry Regiment, North Carolina Troops, C.S.A. PICTURE 
Major General Darius N. Couch, II Corps of Army of the Potomac Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
First Lietuenant Nelson Adair Cresap, 47th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., PICTURE
Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis, Commander Army of the Southwest, U.S.A., PICTURE
Major General George Armstrong Custer, Commander 3rd Cavalry Division, U.S.A., PICTURE
Private William Nicholas Demastus, 9th ( Gantt's) Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A.
Captain Thomas McKendree Dodd, 29th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.
2nd Corporal John Lewis Dunn, 9th Kentucky Regiment Mounted Infantry, C.S.A.
Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Valley District Commander, C.S.A., PICTURE
Lieuteneant General Richard Ewell, 2nd Corps Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Admiral David Farragut, West Gulf Blockading Squadron Commander, Union Navy, PICTURE
Major Thomas Kinloch Fauntleroy, C.S.A.
Brigadier General Thomas Turner Fauntleroy, Virginia Provisional Army, C.S.A.
Colonel James B. Forman, 15th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant Samuel Tebbs Forman, 4th Kentucky mounted Rifles, C.S.A. PICTURE 
Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Forrest's Cavalry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury, Granbury's Texas Brigade Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, General in Chief of the Union Armies, U.S.A. PICTURE
Brevet Major General John Irvin Gregg, U.S. Volunteers, U.S.A. PICTURE 
Captain Joseph M. Gonzales, Company A, Ogden's New River Rangers, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General John B. Gordon, 2nd Corps Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private Robert B. Green, Holcombe's Legion South Carolina, C.S.A.
Private William F. Green, Sr., 2nd South Caroliana Artillery, C.S.A.
Private Anders Halstensen, 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Army of the Potomac, II Corps Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General William J. Hardee, Army of Tennessee Corps Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Henry Heth, Division Commander, III Corps, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private George Washington Higginbotham, 3rd Alabama Cavalry, C.S.A.
Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, 3rd Corps Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
1st Lieutenant James Berry Hollan, 4th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, Army of Tennessee Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Joseph Hooker, Army of the Potomac Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Seaman Thomas Horner, Gunboat New Ironsides, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General O. O. Howard , Army of Tennessee Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE 
Brigadier General John Daniel Imboden, Valley District Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Sergeant George F. Ingram, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.
Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson, Second Army Corps Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
General Albert Sidney Johnston, Western Department Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
General Joseph E. Johnston, Army of Tennessee Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General Hugh J. Kilpatrick, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, Union Army PICTURE
General Robert E. Lee, General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States, C.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee, Army of Tennessee, Corps Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private Zachariah Z. Lee, 30th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.
Lieutenant Colonel Meriweather Lewis, 9th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A.
Private Thomas L. Lewis, 5th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, U.S.A.
Major General John A. Logan, Army of Tennessee Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General James Longstreet, 1st Corps Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Department of the West Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General William W. MacKall, Island 10 Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General John B. Magruder, Commander, District of Texas, New Mexico, & Arizona, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Joseph Mansfield, Army of the Potomac, XII Corps Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Private Alfred Gatlin Matthews, 2nd Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Captain John H. McClanahan, McClanahan's Virginia Artillery Company, C.S.A. PICTURE
Sergeant Y. O. McClanahan, 13th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General George B. McClellan, General in Chief of the Union Army, U.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch, Army of the West Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private Robert James McDade, II, 3rd Pennsylvania Artillery, U.S.A. 
Private Robert McDade, Sr., Pennsylvania Light Artillery, U.S.A.
Private Daniel K. McDougall, 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, U.S.A.
Major General Irvin Mc Dowell, Army of Northeastern Virginia, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General George G. Meade, Army of the Potomac Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE 
Captain Robert B. Meads, 4th Maryland Volunteers Infantry, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General James S. Negley, 2nd Division, U.S.A. PICTURE
1st Corporal James O'Kelly, 13th Georgia Infantry, C.S.A.
Brigadier General Eleazer A. Paine, Fourth Division, Army of the Mississippi, U.S.A PICTURE
Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, Department of Mississippi & Louisiana, C.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew, 26th North Carolina Infantry Brigade, C.S.A. PICTURE
2nd Sergeant Thomas Sims Phillips, 13th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General George Pickett, Division Commander, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. PICTURE
Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk, Army of Mississippi Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General John Pope, Army of Virginia Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Fitz-John Porter, 5th Corps Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Sterling Price, Army of the West Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private James Alsop "Top" Redding, Gano' Cavalry, C.S.A.
Second Corporal Nathaniel Green Rieves, 1st Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.
Sergeant Isaac D. Robbins, 26th Indiana Infantry & 146th Indiana Infantry, U.S.A.
Colonel Josiah Robins, 3rd Alabama Cavalry, C.S.A.
Major General William S. Rosecrans, Army of the Cumberland Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General John Schofield, Army of the Ohio Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Philip H. Sheridan, Army of the Shenandoah Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General William T. Sherman, Commander of the Western Armies, U.S.A. PICTURE
Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley, Sibley's New Mexico Campaign Commander, C.S.A., PICTURE
Major General Daniel Sickles, 3rd Corps Commander, U.S.A., PICTURE
Major General Franz Sigel, Department of West Virginia Commander, U.S.A., PICTURE
Major General Henry Warner Slocum, Army of Georgia Commander, U.S.A., PICTURE
General Edmund Kirby Smith, Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, C.S.A.  PICTURE
Major General G.W. Smith, Commander, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, C.S.A. PICTURE
2nd Lieutenant James M. Smith, 16th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry, U.S.A.
Lieutenant General Alexander P. Stewart, Army of Tennessee Commander, C.S.A. PICTURE
George Hicks Strother, 3rd Alabama Cavalry, C.S.A.
Major General J. E. B. Stuart, Cavalry Corps Commander, C. S. A. PICTURE
Private Joseph F. Sullivan, 8th Kentucky Infantry (Later Mounted), C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Edwin Vose Sumner, II Corps Commander, Army of the Potomac, U.S.A., PICTURE
Major General George H. Thomas, Commander of the Army of the Cumberland, U.S.A. PICTURE
Private Thomas Jefferson Turnbow, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A.
Sergeant George Uhri, Light Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery, U.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Earl Van Dorn, Commander of the Army of West Tennessee, C.S.A. PICTURE
Sergeant-Major William Henry von Eberstein, 61st Infantry Regiment, North Carolina State Troops, C.S.A.
Private James William Wade, 44th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, V Corps Commander, U.S.A. PICTURE
Private William Wirt Wilburn, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A. PICTURE
Private Archie Wilkerson, 12th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
Color Sergeant Jesse Pearman Williams, 8th Missouri Infantry, C.S.A.
Major Blake Lynch Woodson, 45th Virginia Battalion, C.S.A.
Sergeant Charles Alexander Woodson, 28th Virginia Infantry & 1st Battalion Virginia Infantry, C.S.A.
Lieutenant William D. Woodson, 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
2nd Lieutenant Aaron Bell Young, 20th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A.     

RELATED WEBSITES

Forebears - A good starting point for British research.

Census Finder - World census records.

Selected Civil War Photographs, American Memories-Library of Congress (Source of Civil War Pictures) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html 
The Generals of the American Civil War  (Source of Generals' Pictures) http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ 
Images of Wartime, The American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html   
Our Civil War Ancestors  http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdjagsuv/vets.html 
Photos from the Past, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War  http://suvcw.org
The Civil War Journal of Andrew Jackson Nickell  http://www.angelfire.com/il/thecivilwarjournal/
Richard White's Confederate Kin  http://pone.com/ts/rw000.htm