Renowned Civil War historian Gary Gallagher speaks highly of the record that Gray and her ancestors have left to posterity. “The Knox family letters are a splendid addition to the body of published firsthand accounts from the Civil War,” said Gallagher, author of “The Confederate War” and “The Union War,” among many works, and the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at The University of Virginia. “Unusually rich in content, they combine testimony from the home front and the battlefield. Through the eyes of these men and w...