John Irvin Gregg

John Irvin Gregg (born July 26, 1826 in Bellefonte , Center County , Pennsylvania , † April 6, 1892 in Washington, DC ) was an officer in the Union Army in the Civil War .

The grandson of US Senator Andrew Gregg and cousin of General David McMurtrie Gregg and Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin attended the Center County and Union Counties academies before participating in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 . He was retired in 1848 with the rank of captain and joined a family business.

When the Civil War broke out, Gregg was first captain and colonel of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves and then captain in the 6th US Cavalry, which was newly formed under the command of his cousin David . As commander of a cavalry squadron under General George B. McClellan , he took part in the Peninsula Campaign ; In late 1862 he was named commander of the 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry .

From January 1863 he was part of the cavalry brigade of William W. Averell in the Army of the Potomac and took part in the Battle of Kelly's Ford. In June of that year he commanded a brigade of the Second Cavalry Division of his cousin David Gregg at the Battle of Brandy Station, Aldie and Upperville, and the Gettysburg Campaign .

In 1864 he was wounded in the Second Battle of Deep Bottom and was named Brevet Colonel of the regular Army and Brevet Brigadier General of the Volunteers. For participating in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Middleburg, Shepherdstown, Wilderness, Sulfur Springs, Samaria (St. Mary's) Church, Deep Bottom, Stony Creek Station and Hatcher's Run, he received the brevet ranks of Major, Lieutenant Colonel in 1865 , Colonel and Brigadier General of the regular army.

After the Civil War in 1866, as Colonel of the 8th US Cavalry, he led a series of expeditions against Indians in the Mojave Desert . From 1870 to 1872 he commanded Fort Union in the New Mexico Territory . In 1872 he led an expedition to map the Texas Panhandle region . In 1879 he retired from military service.

literature

John H. Eicher, David J. Eicher : Civil War High Commands . Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
John Blair Linn: History of Center & Clinton Counties . Louis H. Everts, Press of JB Lippinscott, Philadelphia 1883.

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SURNAME	Gregg, John Irvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American general
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bellefonte , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1892
Place of death	Washington, DC