ABSTRACT
Twice I have been shot at in my room. Some of my night scholars have been shot but none were killed The nearest military protection is two hundred miles away.
-from a teacher in Louisiana, 1866
Miss Wells, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke, was one of these heroines who followed the army before peace was declared into one of the bitterest and most conservative parts of the South. She began her school which she named "Trinity " at Athens, Alabama. The Ku Klux lined up around her school, fired volleys of shot and beans through her windows on either side of the chair on which she was sitting. After repeated threats, the school was burned over her head The Association, unwilling for her to run further risk, urged retreat. This the brave woman refused to do. She established a brick yard, set the negroes to making bricks and under her direction they built the school house which served them for many years. Another teacher in North Carolina was ordered to leave but she replied, "I was sent by the American Missionary Association and when it says "Go.I" I will go and not before.
