In Memory Of Private Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick

Crosby County's records name a Fourth Cavalry private called Gregg, killed on October 10, 1871, after Kwahadi Comanches stampeded about seventy horses from the regiment's camp near Silver Falls and the troopers chasing them were ambushed. They also name Private William Max, born in Tipperary, who died of typhoid at the supply camp on September 4, 1874, and whose sandstone headstone, carved by a fellow trooper, is in the county museum. They died on a campaign to drive the Comanche from their own range, which the 1936 inscription calls clearing the plains.

What the plaque says

In Memory Of Private Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick In Memory Of Private Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick and other soldiers who met death in this region while serving under General R. S. MacKenzie, Fourth U.S. Cavalry, 1871-1872 and 1874-1875. with no hope of honor if victorious, no dream of mercy if they fell, and the certainty of death by torture if taken alive, they fought the savage Comanche and cleared the plains for the white men.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spur-Dickens County Museum — 1.0 mi
  Dickens County's museum on the main block of Spur, a town born on November 1, 1909, when the first train reached the land a New York syndicate was selling off from the Spur Ranch.
• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 26 mi
  Crosbyton's museum of Blanco Canyon, built in 1958 as a copy of Hank Smith's Rock House, and the place to learn the canyon's 1871 fight between Mackenzie's cavalry and Quanah's Quahadi Comanche.

More markers nearby

• Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Spur — 2.3 mi
• Site of Anderson's Fort or Soldier's Mound — 3.3 mi
• Espuela — 7.4 mi
• Dickens County — 9.9 mi