Memorial Day at Hockanum cemetery
Hadley (Mass.)
Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Hadley
Two well dressed Civil War Veterans, each holding a bouquet, looking down at a gravestone with flag mounted in front of it and flowers around the base of the flag. Well kept picket fence at the rear of the graveyard. Connecticut river and Mount Tom in the background.
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Jones Library Special Collections
undated
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From the Clifton Johnson Collection
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CJ2169
Honored dead
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Stearns, Frazar Augustus, 1840-1862
Amherst (Mass.)
Clipping from the Hampshire and Franklin Express describing the Civil War deaths of men from Amherst including a mention of Frazar Stearns, the son of the President of Amherst College.
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1862-04-11
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Newspapers
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Poem for Frazar Stearns
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Stearns, Frazar Augustus, 1840-1862
Amherst (Mass.)
Poem written in honor of Frazar Stearns after his death at the battle of Newbern. The poem was published on the first page of the Hampshire and Franklin Express, the local newspaper.
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1862-03-28
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Necessities of the war and the conditions of success in it, a sermon
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Sermons
Amherst (Mass.)
"A sermon preached in the Village Church, before the College and the united Congregations of the town of Amherst, Mass., on the National Fast Day, Thursday, September 26, 1861."
Sermon preached by Rev. William A. Stearns, president of Amherst College.
Two weeks after the disastrous Union defeat at the first Bull Run (July 21, 1861), Congress requested, and Lincoln proclaimed, a national Fast Day, "a day of public prayer, humiliation, and fasting, to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnities, and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, his blessings on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace."
This sermon was the big event in Amherst to commemorate the national fast day.
Stearns, William A. (William Augustus), 1805-1876
Jones Library Special Collections
1861
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Is part of the Amherst Imprints Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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Amherst Imprints 424
The Christian Soldier, a sermon by Charles Wadsworth
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Sermons
This sermon was preached at the beginning of the Civil War by Charles Wadsworth, a minister proclaimed by Emily Dickinson to be "My Shepherd from 'Little Girl'hood'." Dickinson had heard him preach at the Arch Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia during a trip to Washington to visit her father, who was a congressman at the time. She and Lavinia (her sister) stayed for two weeks with the Coleman family (cousins) who attended the Arch Street Church where Wadsworth was minister. The Colemans mailed copies of his sermons to Dickinson in the years following.
Wadsworth, Charles, 1814-1882
Jones Library Special Collections
1861
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Call number: DICKINSON/Wadsworth
Civil War veterans on Amherst Town Common
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Veterans
Amherst (Mass.)
Civil War veterans standing at attention on the east side of the Town Common. This is probably a Memorial Day event which followed a similar program for many years: speeches in the schools, speeches at various locations in area towns where the local Civil War veterans gathered en masse, a luncheon, and finally, a gathering of the veterans on the Amherst Common followed by a procession to the West Cemetery where there were more exercises. This photograph may have been taken in 1911, the 50-year anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
Kenfield, Charles R.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1911
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Procession of Civil War veterans
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Veterans
Amherst (Mass.)
Procession of Civil War veterans marching north on South Pleasant Street. They are preceded by a band and marshall and followed by a group of women or children and a group of carriages pulled by horses. This is probably a Memorial Day event which followed a similar program for many years: speeches in the schools, speeches at various locations in area towns where the local Civil War veterans gathered en masse, a luncheon, and finally, a gathering of the veterans on the Amherst Common followed by a procession to the West Cemetery where there were more exercises. This photograph may have been taken in 1911, the 50-year anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
Kenfield, Charles R.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1911
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