SC-40-25 Birthplace of General Maxcy Gregg

Marker text: BIRTHPLACE OF GENERAL MAXCY GREGG

Maxcy Gregg, Confederate General and leader in Southern Rights Movement, was born Aug. 1, 1815 in a house on this site. Member of committee which framed the ordinance of secession, Dec. 1860; Colonel 1st Regiment South Carolina Volunteers; Brigadier General in 1861. Mortally wounded at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862; died two days later.

Erected 1938 by The Columbia Sesquicentennial Commission of 1936.

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Location: Senate St. btw Sumter and Marion Sts., Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina

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