★ Gregg, David McMurtie

David McMurtie Gregg​

Born: April 10, 1833

Birthplace: Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Father: Matthew Duncan Gregg 1804 – 1845

(Buried: New Valley Baptist Cemetery, Lucketts, Virginia)​

Mother: Ellen McMurtie 1802 – 1847

(Buried: Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania)​

Wife: Ellen Frances Sheaff 1837 – 1915

(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)​

Married: October 6, 1862 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Children:

George Sheaff Gregg 1867 – 1937​

(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)​

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David McMurtie Gregg Jr. 1869 – 1951​

(Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania)​

Education:

1855: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (8th​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1855: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, Dragoons Regiment​

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1855 – 1861: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, 1st​ Dragoons Regiment​

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1861: 1st​ Lt. United States Army, 1st​ Dragoons Regiment​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1865: Captain, United States Army, 6th​ Cavalry Regiment​

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1861 – 1862: Served in the Defenses of Washington, D.C.​

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1862: Developed typhoid fever and kept at Washington, D.C. Hospital​

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1862: Colonel of 8th​ Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment​

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1862: Screened the retreating Union Infantry Seven Days Campaign​

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1862 – 1865: Brigadier General of Union Army Volunteers, Cavalry​

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1863: Went on raid around Lee's Left during Battle of Chancellorsville​

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1863: Led the left Wing at the Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia​

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1863: Sent to attack rear of the confederates on Fleetwood Hill​

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1863: Division Commander leading his troops at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville​

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1863: Cavalry Division Commander at Battle of Gettysburg​

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1863: Delayed Lee's attempt to flank Union Army at Warrenton, Virginia​

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1864: Commander of Cavalry Corps Army of the Potomac, until Sheridan assumed command​

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1864: Union Army Commander at Battle of Haw's Shop, Virginia​

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1864: Cavalry Division Commander at Battle of Trevilian Station, Virginia​

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1864 – 1865: Screened Union movements during Siege of Petersburg​

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1865: Resigned from United States Army on February 3rd​​

Occupation after War:

Farmer in Reading, Pennsylvania, and Milford, Delaware​

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1868: Applied for reinstatement in Army but his cousin got position​

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United States Counsel to Prague, Austria – Hungary​

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Helped raise funds for Valley Forge to build a national monument​

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Speaker at events in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania​

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1892 – 1895: Pennsylvania State Auditor General​

Died: August 7, 1916

Place of Death: Reading, Pennsylvania

Age at time of Death: 83 years old

Burial Place: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy weekend (Sunday) Birthday Brig. General David M. Gregg! Salutes remembering General Gregg on his birthday weekend.

 

[Pollaco]

No reason was given for his resignation from both the volunteer or the regular Army. It was on Febuary 3,1865 and still remains one of the mysterys of the Civil War.

 

[rpkennedy]

No reason was given for his resignation from both the volunteer or the regular Army. It was on Febuary 3,1865 and still remains one of the mysterys of the Civil War.

It was likely a form of PTSD. He wrote his wife in late 1864 that he found that he had become almost debilitatingly frightened and homesick. It seems like he had hit his limit of what he could handle from combat.

Ryan

 

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[Pollaco]

Whatever the reason for his resignation Sheridan was said to have expressed his regrets.

 

[Pollaco]

There were only 2 U.S.Cavalry divisions on the Petersburg /Richmond front. One from The Army of the Potomac and the other from the Army of the James. Gregg commanded the one from the AOP.

 

[ErnieMac]

Gregg commanded the Federal cavalry that held off Stuart on July 3 on East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg.