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The American Home Front: The Civil War
From: U.S. History
Date: 19900901
Author:Abrahamson, James L.
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The Civil War
In his 1884 Memorial Day address. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., former Union officer become Supreme Court Justice, spoke of the Civil War' s psychic effect on those who had fought. Determined to act greatly, Holmes and his youthful companions had committed themselves "with enthusiasm and faith" to a "long and hard" war, "without being able to foresee exactly where They would come out." From that experience, he claimed, they had emerged forever changed - a generation set apart from other Americans.
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