February 2025

Seventh Texas Infantry Generals John Gregg and Hiram Granbury by Rebecca Blackwell Drake In 1861, John Gregg and Hiram B. Granbury enlisted with the 7th Regiment Texas Infantry for “Three years or the war.” As their wives followed them from battlefield to battlefield, and eventually to prison, they skillfully commanded the Confederate forces. The story […]

Mary Garth Gregg: A Steel Magnolia By Rebecca Blackwell Drake On January 11, 1864, at a train station in Dalton, Georgia, Mary Gregg said goodbye to her husband, John, as they boarded separate trains. Mary’s train would take her south to her father’s home near Decatur, Alabama, while John’s train headed north to Richmond, where […]