John Gray
Transcribed and Submitted by
Glenn Land
Age: 20
Rank Entering the Service: Private
Rank Leaving the Service: Private
Military Unit: 60th Infantry Regiment
Alternate Name for the Military Unit: 79th Tennessee Inf. Reg. ( later
mounted and became the 60th Mtd.Inf.)
Company: E
Enlistment Date: 04 JUL 1862
Place of Enlistment: Haynesville, ( present-day Johnson City ) Tenn.
Abstract of Information available in the Service Records:
Enlisted and mustered into Co.E 60th Tennessee Inf.on July 4,1862 at
Haynesville,Tennessee. Discharged and sent home " due to back injury "
Personal Information about the Veteran (Not contained in the CMSR):
In his own words,from his Civil War Questionnaire John States that after his
enlistment " They sent us to Mobile,Ala. where I took sick and while I was
unconscious and delirious I fell from a window and injured my back for life.
The examining board sent me home by train and my regiment was sent to the
front lines at Vicksburg,Miss." John was born in 1842, the oldest child of
Robert Hale and Rachel Baskette Gray. He served in the 60th with his Uncles,
Anderson Gray ( Gray Station was probably named for a train depot on his land
) and Harvey Gray,who died a p.o.w. at Ft.Delaware prison. His younger brother
James probably joined the 60th late in the war and his first cousin Nelson
Gray served in Co,G 29th Tenn.Inf. John married on Oct.7,1877 to Melvinia
Wheelock. Their oldest son George W. Gray was the father of my maternal
grandmother, Sallie Gray Cox. John died in 1923.
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