My hunt after 'The Captain'

My hunt after 'The Captain'

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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 (author)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935

Atlantic Monthly

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., abandoned his studies at Harvard College to join the Massachusetts Volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was wounded on October 21, 1861, at the battle of Ball’s Bluff, in Virginia, and attended by a Philadelphia physician, William Hunt (1825-1896). Wendell Holmes returned to active duty and was again wounded, on September 17, 1862, at Antietam. His father left Boston to seek his son after this second incident and subsequently published an account of this affair in The Atlantic monthly. Here, he describes some of the aftermath of the battle which he observed.

Excerpt from the article "My hunt after 'The Captain'," by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), published in Atlantic monthly, v. 10 no. 62

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Ticknor and Fields

1862 December

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