GEN. MAXCEY GREGG

Maxcy Gregg was born in 1814 and educated at South Carolina College, which he left in 1836, when he refused to share first honors in the graduating class.

On March 24, 1847, he was appointed a major in the Twelfth U.S. Infantry, which was recruited in Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, and South Carolina. After spending the summer on recruiting duty at Charleston, he left in October 1847 to join his regiment in Mexico, but he was too late to participate in the battles in which the Twelfth was engaged.

On July 25, 1848, he was mustered out of service with teh regiment at Camp Carrollton, LA. He was an early advocate of secession, and was a member of the convention which voted to take South Carolina out of the union.

Gregg was appointed colonel of the First South Carolina on Jan. 7, 1861. On Dec. 14, 1861, he was appointed a brigadier general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. His brigade consisted of the 1st (Gregg's) Regiment, Orr's Regiment, Twelfth Regiment, Thirteenth Regiment, and Fourteenth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers.

A year and a day later, on Dec. 15, 1862, he received his mortal wound at Fredericksburg.