Philadelphia Public Ledger
[source: Public Ledger 9 November 1871]GREGORY.--On Tuesday, Nov. 7th, at 4 A.M., General EDGAR M. GREGORY, in the 68th year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, No. 1723 Master street, on Monday, Nov. 13th, at 10 A.M. Service at Oxford Presbyterian Church, Broad and Oxford streets, at 11 A. M. Funeral to proceed to South Laurel Hill Cemetery.
New York Times
[New York Times 8 November 1871, page 5, column 4, 'Telegraphic Brevities']Gen. E. M. GREGORY, of Philadelphia, United States Marshal of the district, died Wednesday morning of Bright's disease of the kidney. He was sixty-eight years of age. Capt. WRIGHT, his son-in-law, will act as Marshall until an appointment is made.
Cincinnati
[Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 9 November 1871, page 4]GENERAL EDGAR M. GREGORY.
The intelligence of yesterday by telegraph of the demise of General GREGORY, in Philadelphia, was received by many of his old friends in this city with profound sorrow. For many years he was an active and successful lumber merchant and banker in this city, and was well and widely known for his philanthropy and public spirit. Having failed in business here, he removed to Philadelphia just before our late war. He took command of a regiment of young men in Philadelphia, and soon won by his bravery and gallantry on the field of battle the position of Brigadier-General, and was long in command as Military Governor at Alexandria, and there, as well as elsewhere, made hosts of friends. At the close of the war he was a Major-General by brevet, and was sent to Texas to conduct the affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau, and subsequently was assigned to duty in Maryland. He remained in the military service for several years after the close of the war. He was appointed by General GRANT Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which office he held at the time of his death.
The General was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and when in this city took an active part in the Missionary Sabbath-school and temperance causes. We are not advised of the circumstances of his death.
Baltimore Sun
['Edgar M Gregory', [Baltimore] Sun 9 November 1871]EDGAR M. GREGORY.--Gen. Edgar M. Gregory, United States marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia on the 7th inst., in his 68th year. Gen. Gregory was a native of New York. Early in the war he raised the Ninety-first regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, of which he was made colonel. He was for a time military Governor of Alexandria. He participated in most of the hard fighting from the battle of Fredericksburg to the end of the war. He was then made assistant commissioner of the freedmen's bureau for Texas, and in 1869 appointed to the position he held at his death.