Book of Biographies: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Berks County, Pa (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Eral david mcmurtrie This distinguished and own resident of the city of Reading, whose portrait we take pleasure in presenting on the opposite pa e, occupies an enviable place in the esteem o the best peo ple of the county and state as one of the best and most efficient Officers produced by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late Civil War. Educated at West Point, and trained by actual experience in the U. 8. Regular Army for a number of years before the conflict between the North and the South, he was fully'prepared, when actual hostilities did break out, to perform his part in preserving the Union, and in thus acting the part of a patriotic son of the nation to rise to a high rank, creditable alike to his early trainin and to his natural ability as a director an leader of men. Gen. Gregg served through the entire war, and won pro motion after promotion, being finally brevet ted major-general U. S. Volunteers on Aug. 1. 1864. In civil life he has also achieved distinction that entitles him all the more to the highest regard of his countrymen.

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