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Birthplace of
General Maxcy Gregg
Senate
Street, between Sumter and Marion streets, Columbia
Maxcy Gregg. Confederate general and leader in southern
rights movement, was born Aug. 1, 1815 in a house on this site.
Member of committee that framed the Ordinance of Secession, Dec. 1860,
Colonel 1st Regiment South Carolina Volunteers; Brigadier General in
1861. Mortally wounded in Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862; died two
days later.
Columbia Chapter, SCGS
PO Box 11353
Columbia, SC 29211-1353
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