Unlike "We'll cry Tomorrow," "Touch of Gray," isn't based on a true story. However I have tried to use the same location and characters that I had in We'll Cry Tomorrow. The year is eighteen sixty one, and Robert and Martha Deaton daughter and son to Robert and Mary is finishing college in Virginia. The story begins with the death of Henry, an Uncle. Set in the small town that is now called Euharle, the on coming war is on every ones mind.