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"[D]eeply moved by the [[Abolition]] cause,"<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sGDdFZ-vIi8C Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self]'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0195101286, p. 31</ref> Holmes left [[Harvard University]] to volunteer for the Union Army in the [[Civil War]], which he called “the [[Christian]] [[Crusade]] of the 19th century.”<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sGDdFZ-vIi8C Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self]'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0195101286, p. 70</ref> Holmes was strongly affected by his experiences in the war. “[I]t's odd how indifferent one gets to the sight of death&mdash;perhaps, because one gets aristocratic and don't value much a common life,” he wrote. “Then they are apt to be so dirty it seems natural.”<ref>Holmes to his mother, December 12, 1862, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed. ''[http://ia331333.us.archive.org/3/items/touchedwithfirec012619mbp/touchedwithfirec012619mbp.pd Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864]'' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947), p. 71 p. 78 (PDF p. 100)</ref>

"[D]eeply moved by the [[Abolition]] cause,"<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sGDdFZ-vIi8C Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self]'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0195101286, p. 31</ref> Holmes left [[Harvard University]] to volunteer for the Union Army in the [[Civil War]], which he called “the [[Christian]] [[Crusade]] of the 19th century.”<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sGDdFZ-vIi8C Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self]'' (Oxford University Press, 1995) ISBN 0195101286, p. 70</ref> Holmes was strongly affected by his experiences in the war. “[I]t's odd how indifferent one gets to the sight of death&mdash;perhaps, because one gets aristocratic and don't value much a common life,” he wrote. “Then they are apt to be so dirty it seems natural.”<ref>Holmes to his mother, December 12, 1862, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed. ''[http://ia331333.us.archive.org/3/items/touchedwithfirec012619mbp/touchedwithfirec012619mbp.pd Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864]'' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947), p. 71 p. 78 (PDF p. 100)</ref>

==Career==

===Career===

After editing the ''American Law Review'' early in his career, Holmes wrote ''The Common-Law'' in 1881. The following year he became a professor of law at Harvard, and two decades later he was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In 1902 President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed him to the [[United States Supreme Court]], where he served until the age of 90, when his colleagues suggested his resignation. He died a few years later. As a Supreme Court Justice, among his law clerks were the brothers [[Alger Hiss|Alger]] and [[Donald Hiss]].

After editing the ''American Law Review'' early in his career, Holmes wrote ''The Common-Law'' in 1881. The following year he became a professor of law at Harvard, and two decades later he was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In 1902 President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed him to the [[United States Supreme Court]], where he served until the age of 90, when his colleagues suggested his resignation. He died a few years later. As a Supreme Court Justice, among his law clerks were the brothers [[Alger Hiss|Alger]] and [[Donald Hiss]].