While speaking of himself in 1948, Eisenhower said he was 'one of the most deeply religious men I know' though unattached to any 'sect or organization'. He was baptized in the Presbyterian Church in 1953.Eisenhower attended Abilene High School and graduated with the class of 1909. As a freshman, he injured his knee and developed a leg infection that extended into his groin, and which his doctor diagnosed as life-threatening. The doctor insisted that the leg be amputated but Dwight refused to allow it, and surprisingly recovered, though he had to repeat his freshman year. When Edgar asked for a second year, Dwight consented and worked for a second year. He then accepted an appointment to West Point in 1911. Following the presidency, Eisenhower moved to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time. The home was a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 70 miles from his ancestral home in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.