Henry Knox

Diaries and Memoirs

Knox, Henry, Phillip Hamilton, and Lucy Knox. The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

While the John and Abigail Adams correspondence is well known and researched, the copious letters between General Henry and Lucy Knox are as interesting. Phillip Hamilton compiled and edited a subset of the letters in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Knox letters do not possess the same writing quality but portray the correspondents’ robust and loving relationship. The letters span the Revolutionary Era into the Early Republic.

Other Primary Sources

Henry Knox papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Henry Knox Papers, The New York Public Library Digital Collections

Henry Knox Museum, Searchable data baseA description of Knox’s expedition to move cannon from Ft. Ticonderoga to Boston in the winter of 1775-6

Biographies

Callahan, North. Henry Knox General Washington’s General. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1958.

Drake, Francis S. Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major General in the American. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1873.

Henry Knox, a Soldier of the Revolution:  Major General in the Continental Army, Washington’s Chief of Artillery, First Secretary of War Under the Constitution, Founder of the Society of Cincinnati:  1750-1806. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900.

Puls, Mark. Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Pul’s volume is recommended as the most authoritative biography and the best place to start understanding Knox’s life and legacy.

Henry Knox’s Legacy

Brakeley, Sam. Skiing with Henry Knox: A Personal Journey along Vermont’s Catamount Trail, 2019.

For a review of this informative and thought-provoking book see, Backcountry Skiing and Revolutionary War General Henry Knox?