Four Brothers in Gray

Four Brothers in GrayThe story of the Four Proffit Brothers from Wilkes County, North Carolina and their service for Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee in the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. Includes a narrative by M. A. Hancock and transcriptions of over a hundred letters sent home to the Proffit family during the war. With contemporary maps and photographs from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Harper's Pictorial History

The story of the Four Proffit Brothers from Wilkes County, North Carolina and their service for Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee in the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. Includes a narrative by M. A. Hancock and transcriptions of over a hundred letters sent home to the Proffit family during the war.

With contemporary maps and photographs from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War and many other primary sources and a foreword by great-grandson, John Miller.

Transcriptions are of the Proffit Family letters in the Southern Historical Collection, the Wilson Library at UNC, Chapel Hill.

Printed in association with Wilkes Community College, copyright holder to Ms. Hancock's story.

Ms. Hancock authored two previous works, Thundering Prairie, about the Oklahoma Land Rush and Menace on the Mountain, which was featured on the Wonderful World of Disney.