Author: Frank Prentice Rand

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-17

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780364790076

Excerpt from Yesterdays at Massachusetts State College, 1863-1933 The Amherst House! All Of the Older alumni remember an Amherst House. Its form might vary, but not its location. It always stood on the southwest corner by Amity Street, facing the common and strategically set to catch up the unwary guest into the dark and musty depths of its hospitality. The most pressing want Of Amherst, the local paper says, is a good hotel. In the stained and faded parlor of this unhonored hos telry the story of our College begins. It is a Thursday afternoon, the 28th Of April, 1864. The New London Northern Railroad is advertising excursion rates to New York City's so-called Sanitary Fair. Fifteen cases Of small pox are reported among the colored people Of the Beehive, iso lated in a pesthouse on the Hadley road. A petition is being circulated on the street, demanding that Congress take the final step and free the slaves. Another draft has been ordered - two hundred thousand soldiers more, Of which number Amherst must furnish twenty-three. War rumors are in the press and on the lips Of outraged townsmen: Forrest's raiders have massa cred three hundred negro soldiers in cold blood after the cap ture of Fort Pillow. Five poor fellows were actually buried alive. One of them was compelled to dig his own grave. The Rebels are fiends incarnate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.