Carte de visite photograph of Gregg. Bust view. Image is clear with very good contrast. Mount features a preprinted oval "picture frame with small (1-1/8" x 1-5/8") photograph pasted in the center. Pencil identifications on front and back. No photographer's backmark.

John Gregg (September 28, 1828 – October 7, 1864) was a politician who served as a Deputy from Texas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.

He resigned his congressional seat, formed the 7th Texas Infantry and was commissioned Brigadier General in September 1862. Gregg's Brigade fought at Chickamauga where he was severely wounded on September 20, when he was hit in the neck. After recovering from his wounds, Gregg was given command of the famous Hood's Texas Brigade in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

Gregg and his brigade participated in the Eastern Campaigns of the spring of 1864, seeing action at the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, the Battle of Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg. During the fighting in the Wilderness, Gregg was wounded on May 6, 1864, and then went with Lee's army to Petersburg until 1864.

On October 7, 1864, Gregg was struck in the neck for a second time and killed along the Charles City Road, near Richmond, Virginia. He was shot while leading a counterattack at the Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads.

Gregg was interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Aberdeen, Mississippi; his widow, Mary Garth Gregg, traveled through the lines to retrieve his body.  [jet] [ph:L]

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