JOHN BRECKENRIDGE GRAYSON - Original Member of the Aztec Club of 1847

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(10-18-1806 – 10-21-1861)
Vice President: 1847 —1848
President: 1848 —1852

Born at Cabell's Dale, Fayette County, Kentucky, he graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1826. Serving in the Artillery school at Fort Monroe until June 4, 1828, he then was assigned topographical duties until March 29, 1832 when he began duty at various posts until 1835. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on April 30, 1834. He served in the Seminole War in 1835-1836 and on commissary duty in New Orleans from 1836-1847.

Grayson was promoted to Captain on Dec 11, 1838 and served as Chief of Commissary of Subsistence of the Army under Winfield Scott. He was at the Siege of Vera Cruz, March 8-29, 1847; the Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 12, 1847; and Battle of Churubusco, where he was breveted Major. He thereafter was at the Battle of Molina del Rey and Battle of Chapultepec, where he was breveted Lieutenant-Colonel, and at the assault and capture of Mexico City. Upon his return to the United States he was assigned to commissary duty in Detroit, promoted to Major, October 21, 1852, and made Chief of Commissary of the Department of New Mexico until 1861 when he resigned to join the Confederate Army.

[John Breckenridge Grayson]

John Breckenridge Grayson
Circa 1861

Jefferson Davis soon after commissioned Grayson as a Brigadier- General and assigned him to command the Department of Middle and Eastern Florida, with headquarters at Fernandina. He contracted a "disease of the lungs" and succumbed at Tallahassee on October 21, 1861. His remains were brought to New Orleans for burial by his son, a Captain in the Washington artillery, in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.

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