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John Franklin "Frank" Gregory (Graves County, Kentucky, student, clerk and first lieutenant (U.S.A.))

b. 1838-06-12 d. 1864-02-28

Graves County, Kentucky, student, clerk, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Gabriel Gregory and Jane McGothy Gregory. Student in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. With his brother, Thomas "Jones" Gregory, he engaged in counter-guerrilla activities in western Kentucky in 1861. Clerk in Paducah in 1863. Mustered into the 13th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Bedford’s Battalion (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant in Paducah on October 26, 1863. Arrested and wounded by Major Bradford at Fort Pillow in Henning, Tennessee, on February 23, 1864. Died of his wounds on February 28, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 1, p. 447A.

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=msu facultyresearch.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Paducah, KY, June 1863, p. 9.

"John Franklin Gregory (1838-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #84019575, accessed May 14, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84019575.

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 Tennessee, 1861-1866 (Nashville, TN: State Printer, 1866), 639.

KYR-0001-022-0015.

Citation

Gregory, John Franklin "Frank". Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204654 (November 12, 2026).

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