The Columbus journal., 1880-06-23

and the Institution was poor, but
there was a great deal of hard faith
full study done, and many ambitious
plans formed. The young president
taught, lectured and preached. and
all the time studied as diligently as
any acolyte in the temple of knowl-
edge. He frequently spoke on Sun
DAYS in the churches of the towns in
the vicinity to create an interest in
the college. Among the Disciples
any one can preach who has a mind
to, no ordination being required.
From these Sunday discourses came
the story that Garfield at n time
was a minister. He never consid-
cred himself as such, and never had
any intention of finding a career in
the pulpit. His ambition, if he had
any outside of the school, lay in the
direction Of law and politics.
HIS MARRIAGE.
During his professorship Garfield
married Miss Lucretia Rudolph,
daughter of a farmer in the neigh
borhood, whose acquaintance he had
made while at the academy, where
she was also a pupil. She was a
quiet, thoughtful girl, of singularly
sweet and refined disposition, fond
of study and reading, possessing a
warm heart and a mind with the
capacity of steady growth. The
marriage was a love affair on both
sides and has been a thoroughly
happy one. Much of Gen. Garfield's
subsequent succe in life may be
attributed to the never-failing SYM
patty and intellectual companion
ship of his wife and the stimulus of
a loving home circle. The young
couple bought a neat little cottage
fronting on the college campus and
began their welded life poor and in
debt, but with brave hearts.
In 1859 the college president was
elected TO the state senate from the
counties of Portage and Summit.
He did not resign his presidency,
because he looked upon a few
months in the Legislature as an cpl
sode not likely to change the course
of his life. But the war came to
alter his plans. During the winter
of 1861 he was active in the passage
of measures for arming the state
militia, and his elOquence and ener-
gy made him a conspicuous leader
of the Union party. Early in the
summer of 1861 he was elected COL
onel of an infantry regiment (the
FOrty-secOnd) raised in Northern
Ohio, many of the soldiers in which
had been students at Hiram. He
took the field in Eastern Kentucky,
was soon put in command of a
brigade, and by making one of the
hardest marches ever made by re-
cruits, surprised and routed the
rebel forces, under Humphrey Mar
shall, at Piketown.
From Eastern Kentucky Gen. Gar
field was transferred to Louisville,
and from that place fastened to join
the army of Gen. Buell., which he
reached with his brigade in time to
participate in the second days fight
ing at Pittsburg Landing. He took
part in the siege of Corinth and in
the operation along the Memphis
and Charleston railroad. In Janu-
airy, 1863, he was appointed chief of
staff of the army of the Cumberland,
and bore a prominent share in all
the campaigns of Middle Tennessee
in the spring and summer of that
year. His last conspicuous military
service was at the battle of Chica-
manga. For his conduct in that
battle he was appointed to a major
generslship. 1t is said that he wrote
all the orders given to the armythat
day, and submitted them to Gen.
Rosecrans for approval, save one.
The one he did not write was the
fatal order to Gen. Wood, which
was 30 worded as not to correctly
convey the meaning of the CON-
handing general, and which caused
the destruction of the right wing of
the army.
ELECTED TO CONGRESS.
The congressional district i'm which
Garfield lived was the one long
made famous by Joshua r. Gid
dings. The old a~nti-slavery cham
pion grew careless Of the arts of
politics towards the end of his ca
reer, and came to look upon a NOM
instion and reelection as a matter
Of course His overconfidence was
taken advantage in 1853 by an ambi-
tious lawyer named Hutchins to
carry a convention against him. The
friends of Giddings never forgave
Hutchins, and cast about for a means
of Indicating him. The old man him.
self was comfortably quartered in
his consulate at Montreal, and did
not carr to make a fight to get back
to congress. So his supporters made
use of the popularity of Gen. Gar
field and nominated him while he
was in the field without asking his