Excerpt from Amherst in the Great Civil Conflict of 1861-65 It is from the inspiration of the experience of such vain researches, that the writer feels called upon to place upon permanent record such data as remain in his possession, as Secretary of the Town Committee, in the days of the late Rebellion, and to make as careful and faithful a record of the part acted by our citizens in the struggle to maintain the Union, as may be. 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.