Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a remarkable individual and a true renaissance man. Outstanding in his various careers in the military, the law, and in the arts and letters, he was even greater as a personality. C.E.S. Wood dared to be himself. He had a passion for freedom and justice and in this he followed the paths of Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain. He hated the intolerant, the bigoted, the privileged, the ignorant. He was a non-conformist and an iconoclast who nevertheless served with dignity and great force the very insti tutions of society which he so often chastised and revolted against.