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Exempt from the Ordinary Rules of Life: Researching Postwar Adjustment Problems of Union Veterans.

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From: Civil War History
Date: 20010301
Author:MARTEN, JAMES

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. declared that "the generation that carried on" the Civil War--his generation--had been "set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." Holmes expressed his insight twenty years after the war ended, when he was already a successful lawyer and member of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He could look forward to many more decades of a productive and cherished life, with all the fame and wealth that came with ...

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