Thomas "Jones" Gregory

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1826

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1865-03-22

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"Thomas "Jones" Gregory" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00008757, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Gabriel Gregory and Jane McGothy Gregory. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1860. With his brother, John Franklin "Frank" Gregory, he engaged in counter-guerrilla activities in western Kentucky in 1861. Served in the 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from January 6, 1862, to February 5, 1862. Farmer in Graves County in 1863. Served in the 1st Regiment Capital Guards, Paducah Battalion, as captain from June 24, 1864, to February 12, 1865. Served as captain of a guerrilla hunting unit in March 1865. Killed by guerrillas in Hickman County, Kentucky, in March 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 447A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 268.
Berry Craig, Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014), 287-88.
Berry Craig and Dieter Ulrich, “Captain Thomas Jones Gregory, Guerrilla Hunter,” Scholarworks, Morehead State University, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1940&context=msufacultyresearch.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 329.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Graves County, KY, June 1863, p. 31.
North Carolina County Registers of Deeds, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Surrey County Marriage Bonds (1784-1868), p. 89.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 54-55, 765.
"Thomas Jones Gregory (1826-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial #84019262, accessed March 2, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84019262.
KYR-0001-022-0015.

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