Touched With Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Olivier Wendell Holmes

by Mark de Wolfe Howe

Overview

Holmes's wartime letters and diary entries have attracted students of war as well as biographers of Holmes as rare glimpses into the mind and heart of a soldier who withstood the great slaughter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823220175
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	The North's Civil War
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark DeWolfe Howe was an American editor, author and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1925 for his piece Barrett Wendell and His Letters. He was secretary to Mr. Justice Holmes from 1933 – 1943. He was Holmes’s biographer and had access to the entirety of his correspondence and personal papers. He was additionally the associate editor of Youth’s Companion from 1888 – 1893 and was the assistant editor of Atlantic Monthly from 1893 – 1985. His has seventeen publications including Shadows, American Bookmen, and Classic Shades. He also edited several books including The Memory of Lincoln and The Beacon Biographies.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	viii
	Introduction to the 2000 Edition	ix
	Preface	xxi
	Letters, May 1-October 23, 1861	1
	Diary, Ball's Bluff	21
	Letters, March 1862-December 1862	35
	Letters, March 1863-April 1864	83
	Diary and Letters, May 3-July 1864	99
	Index	153