Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-06-16

cred himself such and never had any
intention of finding a career in the pull
pit. His ambition, if he had any out
side of the school, lay in the direction
of law and politics.
HIS MARRIAGE.
During his professorship Garfield
married Miss Lucretia Rudolph, daugh.
| ter of farmer in the neighborhood,
whose scq laintlnce he had made while
at the academy, where she was also q
pupil She was quiet, thoughtful
girl, of singularly sweet and refined
disposition, fond of study and reading
possessing a warm heart and mind
with the capacity of steady growth.
The marriage was love affair on both
| sides and has been q thoroughly happy
| one. Much of Gen. Garfeld's subse-
quent success in life may be attributed
to the never-failing sympathy and in
tellectual companionship of his wife
and the stimulus of loving home cir
Gle. The young couple bought 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 the few months in the
legislature as an episode 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 en-
ergy made him a conspicuous leader of
the Union party Early in the summer
he was elee ted Colonel 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 brigade,
and by making one of the hardest
marches ever made by recruits surpris-
ed and routed the rebel forces, under
Humphrey Marshall, at Piketon.
From eastern Kentucky General Gar
field was transferred to Louisville, and
from that place fastened to join the ar
my of Gen. Buell., which he reached
with his brigade in time to participate
in the second days fighting at Pitts
burgh Landing He took part in the
operations along the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad. In January,
1863, he was appointed Chief of staff
of the Army of the Cumberland and
bore prominent share in all the CAM
paigns in middle Tennessee in the
spring and summer of that year. His
last conspicuous military service was
at the battle of Chickamauga. For his
conduct in that battle he was promoted
to Major-generalship 1t is said that
| he wfo.e all the orders given to the
army that day, and submitted them to
Gen. Rosecrans for approval, save one.
The one he did not write was the fatal
order to General Wood, which was so
worded as not to correctly convey the
meaning Of the commanding general,
and which caused the destruction of the
right wing of the army.
ELECTION TO CONGRESS-
The Congressional district in which
Garfield lived was the one long made
famous by Joshua r. Giddings. The
old anti-savery champion grew care
| less Of the arts of politics towards the
end of his career and came to look upon
nomination and reelection as mat
| ter of course. His over-cOnfldence was
taken advantage of in 1858 by an am
bilious lawyer named Hutchins to car
ry convention against him. The
| friends of Giddings never forgave Hut
| chins, and cast about for means of de-
feating him. The old man himself was
comfortably quartered in his Consulate
at Montreal and did not care to make
fight to get back to Congress- SO his
supporters made use of the popularity
of Gen. Garfield and nominated him
while he was in the field without ask
| ing his consent That was in 1862.
When he heard of the nomination Gar
field reflected that it would be fifteen
months before the Congress would
meet to which he would be elected, and
believing, as did every one else, that
the war could not possibly last year
| longer, concluded to accept. L have
often heard him express regret that he
did not help fight the war through, and
say that he rever would have left the
army to go to Congress had he foreseen
that the struggle would continue be-
yond the year 1868. He continued his
military Sc vice up to the time Con-
gress met
On entering Congress in December,
1868, Gen. Garfield was placed upon
the Committee on Military Affairs,
with Schenck and Fransworth, who
were fresh from the field. He took an
active part in the debates of the House
and won n recognition which few mem
bers succeeded in gaining. He was not
popular among his fellow members
during his first term. They thought
him something Of a pedant because he
sometimes showed his scholarship in
! his speeches, and they were jealous OF
his prominence. His solid attainments
| and amiabe social qualities enabled
him to overcome this prejudice during
his second term, and he became on
terms of friendship with the best men
in both houses. His committee service
during his second term was on the
Ways and Means, which was quite
to his taste, for it gave him an oppor-
tunity to prosecute the studies of
finance and political economy which he
had always felt fondness for. He was
hard worker and u great reader in
those days, going home with his arms
full of books from the Congressional
Library, and sitting up late nights to
read them. 1t was then that he laid
the foundation Of the convictions on
the subject of national finance which
he has since held to firmly amid oil the