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... enough, not yet been ridiculed into oblivion. (See post 79.) Working on their conviction that neither the Civil War nor the Civil War amendments altered the fundamental theory of the American system of government, Field and his fellows finally succeeded in surrendering to the Confederacy 31 years after Appomattox. (See post 244.) It was only two decades later that some of the justices - including that Union veteran Oliver Wendell Holmes - began to have second thoughts about the long surrender.