At the end of his service in the American Civil War Holmes entered Harvard Law School. Early in his career he became co-editor of the "American Law Review," a commercial legal periodical, and wrote his great work "The Common-Law" in 1881. In 1882 Holmes became professor of law at Harvard, and was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1899.On the U.S. Supreme Court, he advocated judicial restrain. From his eloquent and frequent disagreements with his more conservative colleagues over the nulli

Holmes accomplished a lot of things within his life. One of the weird things about his life is that he wrote a letter to his one friend Lewis Einstein a few years before his death. The letter simply said “I shall go out to Arlington tomorrow, Memorial Day, and visit the gravestone with my name and my wife's on it, and be stirred by the military music, and, instead of bothering about the Unknown Soldier shall go to another stone that tells beneath it are the bones of, I don't remember the number but two or three thousand and odd, once soldiers gathered from the Virginia fields after the Civil War. I heard a woman say there once, 'They gave their all. They gave their very names.' Later perhaps some people will come in to say goodbye." That is how Oliver Wendell Holmes ended up dying, which is strange since he wrote the letter a few ye

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