Oliver Wendell Holmes gathers essays from 1857 to 1881. “Bread and the Newspaper” describes Boston’s hunger for war news in 1861; “My Hunt After ‘The Captain'” tells of his journey to find his wounded son after Antietam; “The Inevitable Trial” names slavery as the cause of the war; and other pieces turn to memories of his youth and to the pulpit.
Humane, witty essays by the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essential for the Civil War home front. Download the free EPUB.