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R003577 "TOUCHED WITH FIRE". A hardcover book measuring approximately 16cm x 24cm that consists of 336 pages. The book is written by James M. Perry, published by Public Affairs, New York, copyright 2003. Nice condition; missing the dust jacket.

They were the "greatest generation " of the nineteenth century -the Civil War heroes whose exploits took them all the way to the White House. "In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. " So said Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , the future Supreme Court justice, about his fellow veterans of the Civil War. The 1860s were a time much like the 1940s, when a generation of idealistic young Americans answered their country 's call, and many made the supreme sacrifice to preserve freedom and liberty for all. And among the two million "boys in blue " were five soldiers whose wartime heroics would take them into national politics -a ride that would lead, in time, to the White House. In Touched with Fire , James M. Perry 

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