[First_Salute]

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes fought at Antietam. Roughly on a line from the north end of Burnsides Bridge and rising up the steep grade to he ridge top where the town of Sharpsburg was laid out, there's a small monument indicating where he was wounded. I think he was in a New York brigade; but I cannot recall the details.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the link and info on Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The most famous Harvard man of the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was a towering figure in American jurisprudence, and one of the Twentieth Century's most influential public figures. Holmes the soldier served with distinction, surviving three wounds and rising to the rank of Captain in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry.

He later served as Brevet Colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Sixth Corps General Horatio Wright. Holmes is of course better known as "The Great Dissenter". For thirty years, from 1902 to 1932, Holmes' brilliant intellect held sway over the US Supreme Court, and immeasurably influenced the American legal system.

According to no less an authority than The Honorable Richard Posner, present day Chief Federal Judge of the Seventh Circuit, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law".