Son of Peter & Elizabeth Gregory both born in Charleston. Only free man of African Descent in Charleston known to have joined the Union Army in defense of the enslaved. Born 28th of November 1842 to a freeborn African-Descent American in Charleston. He joined the 104th Regiment of the US Colored Troops rising to the rank of First Sgt after Charleston's liberation from the war. Major Martin Delaney recruited the regiment in Charleston, an African Descent American himself. Following the Civil War, Gregory, a carpenter by trade, played a significant role in the inter-racial Carpenter's union in Charleston. As the eldest living Charleston Union Soldier of African Descent he was known by the honorary title of Colonel Gregory. In 1881, he married Mary Elizabeth George, the widow of Ebenezer F. George. Her son Louis, adopted his step father's name Gregory. After Mary Elizabeth passed away in 1891, George Gregory remarried Lauretta Noisette, widow of another Civil War veteran, Louis Noisette. Louis Noisette is related to Celastine Noisette through her family who escaped with her from Haiti but whom Phillipe was unsuccessful in his 1808 petition to liberate due to changes in State manumission laws. Lauretta was pregnant when Louis Noisette passed away (Louis is burried in Savannah). Their son Lewis Noisette moved with his mother Lauretta to New York and opened up a Barbershop which remained open past the year 2000 on Lennox Ave, where he raised a large family and "Grandma Gregory" as Lauretta became known passed away in the 1950s in New York. George Gregory died on the 16th of October 1929 from being struck by a truck. His funeral was attended by a racially mixed group many of whom evidently were associated with the Carpenters Union which ran a newspaper advertisement asking members to attend. In his eulogy his step-son Louis Gregory noted, "On the basis of merit and good humor he was highly respected and honored by a large circle of friends among both races." Two of his grand daughters Sadie and Lauretta, followed his step-son into the Baha'i Faith.