"'I am a Bitter Enemy to Slavery' An Amherst College Student Goes to War" Robert H. Romer, Emeritus Professor of Physics

For additional information about speaker:Professor Romer will discuss his new book (Levellers Press, 2022), featuring the story of Christopher Pennell, son of a West Stockbridge minister, a sophomore at Amherst when the Civil War broke out in April, 1861. The title of the book comes from a letter that Christopher wrote to his mother shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12. That letter now resides in the Archives & Special Collections in Frost Library, just one of many documents held at Frost without which this book would not exist.