President JAMES GARFIELD Battle of Middle Creek Shiloh, 1871 Art Print Engraving

Description: JAMES A. GARFIELD Artist: Engraved by H. & C. Koevoets, New York NOTE: The title in the box above is also in the white border below this scene. PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed in 1871; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 7 x 10 inches, image size is 6 by 8 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receive priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! PRINT DESCRIPTION: James Abraham Garfield was born November 19, 1831, in the township of Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, about fifteen miles from Cleveland. His father, Abraham Garfield, a farmer from New York State, was of Puritan descent. When his youngest son, James, was but two years of age he died, leaving four children to be supported by their mother, a woman of great energy and perseverance. James, like the rest of the family, had to work hard to earn a livelihood. His summers were spent in labor on the farm, and in the winter he worked at a carpenter's bench, and attended school when he could. At the age of seventeen he hired out as a driver on the Ohio and Erie canal, and soon rose to the position of tiller of the boat. He continued to follow this calling until an attack of fever, in the fall of 1848, obliged a several months' rest. The following spring he decided to enter a school called the Geauga Academy, in an adjoining county. For the sake of economy he hired a room and kept house for himself while pursuing his studies. By working at the carpenter's trade mornings and evenings and during vacations, and teaching school in the winter, he managed to attend the spring and fall terms of the academy until he had completed its course. Having determined to give himself the advantages of a thorough education, he entered Williams College, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1854, being then about twenty-three years of age. By close application he had previously finished the studies belonging to the freshman and sophomore years, and was thus prepared to enter the junior class at once. lie was graduated in 1856 with the metaphysical honors of his class. Before entering college young Mr. Garfield had joined the sect of the " Disciples," better known as theb "Campbellites," so called from their founder, Alexander Campbell. The principal peculiarities of the denomination are their refusal to formulate their beliefs into a creed, the independence of each congregation, and the lack of a regular ministry. After his return to Ohio, Mr. Garfield became Professor of Latin and Greek in the Eclectic Institute, in Hiram, the college of the sect, and took deep interest in the building up of the institution. He was chosen its President before he had been in the professorship two years. He taught, lectured, and delivered Sunday discourses. Mr. Garfield's political life began in 1859, when he was elected to the Senate of Ohio from the counties of Portage and Summit. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar. In the Legislature he at once took high rank as a Union leader, and during the winter of 1861 was active in the passage of measures for arming the State militia. In the summer he was appointed Colonel of the Forty-second Ohio Volunteers, and sent to Eastern Kentucky, when, with his own and the Fortieth Ohio regiment, he, by making one of the hardest marches ever made by recruits, surprised and defeated the Confederate forces under Humphrey Marshall, at Piketon. Lie was made Brigadier-general of Volunteers, January II, 1862, the date of his victory at Prestonburg. He subsequently served at Shiloh, Corinth, and in Alabama, and early in 1863 was made Chief of Staff to General Rosecrans. For his "gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Chickamauga, he was promoted to a major-generalship. In 1862, he was elected a Representative, from Ohio, to the Thirty-eighth Congress. He, however, continued his military services up to the time Congress met, in December, 1863. He was placed on the Committee on Military Affairs. He was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committee on Ways and Means; and also as Regent of the Smithsonian Institute. He was also a Delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists' Convention "of 1866, and of the "Soldiers' Convention " held in Pittsburg. He was re-elected successively to the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congress. In January, 1880, he was elected to the Senate to fill the seat of Alien G. Thurman, whose term expired on March 4,1881. The Republican Convention held at Chicago, in June, 1880, nominated General James A. Garfield for the office of President of the United States. He was elected in the following November, and in March, 1881, entered upon his duties as Chief Magistrate of the United States. President Garfield was assassinated by a pistol-shot in the hands of Charles J. Guiteau, in the depot of the Baltimore Railroad, at Washington, D. C., on July 2, 1881. After lingering heroically through the balance of the summer, the President died at Elberou, near Long Branch, New Jersey, September 19, 1881.

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