 But what happened is that those views then became magnified in the Civil War. And I thought it was interesting that I came across one passage that listed the books that he took to war. Now, keep in mind, Oliver Wendell Holmes was the most unlucky soldier in the history of warfare. Every time he stepped on a battlefield. Well, wait, he survived. Jonathan Turley, The Indispensable Right, joined by former ACLU President Nadine Strassen.