The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-02

receive the special commentator OF the COM
handing general and the government, and he
was made Brgadler General IN acknowledgment
Of his services On his arrival at Louisville, the
army Of the Ohio was already beyond Nashville,
on Is march TO aid Grant at P!ttsburg Landing
Gen. Garfield fastened after It. assumed COM
mand of the Twentieth brigade, and reached
the held Of Pit,sburg Landing on the second
day OF the battle participating in its closing
success. HIS brigade bore its full share IN the
tedious siege operations before Corintb. and
was among tde earliest in entering the town az
ter Gen. Be2uregard's evacuation.
His Old malsdy. fever and ague. contracted in
the days Of bis towpath service. was aggravated
in the malarlous climate Of the South. and Gen.
Garfield was sent home on sick leave about the
first OF August, 1862 remaining until January,
1868, when he was ordered 10 join Gen. Rose
craus a. chief o. staff. In tins position he re-
NAMED until his military career closed. HIS
last conspicuous military service was at the
battle OF CAicksmauga, Sept. 10 and 90, 1862
and for bis bravery and generalshp in that en-
gagement be was promoted to the rank OF Ma
jor General.
At this point the military career OF Gen. Gar
field practically came to an end. Ia 1852, while
absent with the army, and without solicitation
on his part. he had been elected TO Congress
from the old Giddings district (the 19th), in
which he resided and believing that bis path OF
usefulness lay IN the direction TO which his con-
stituents pointed, he resigned bis commission
nd IL,
statesman's life.
In Congress he at once took high rank and
from his admission to tho House Of Represent
atives up to the present time be has been an
active, energetic, hard worker. He soon became
known as a powerful speaker. remarkably ready,
and always effective in debate, while in the COM
mittees lie proved himself an invaluable work
er. His party renomlnated him by acclamaton
on the expiration OF his term and on his return
to the House was given leading place on its
leading committee-on Ways and Means. Here
he soon rose to a great influence.
He studied the whole range of financial ques-
tons with the assiduity OF his college days, go
that hel looked upon today as one of the very
ablest OF our National fnanciers.
He stood by his party. and his party stood by
him, reelecting him excessively to the Thirty
ninth, Fortieth, Forty first. Forty second, For
ty-third, Forty fourth, Forty-ffth AID Forty
sixth Congresses.
In January last he was elected 10 the nited
States Senate to fill the seat Of Allen g. Thur
man, who retires on the 4th OF next March
He received the unanimous vote OF the Repub-
lican caucus for this position, an honor never
conferred before on any man by any party in
the State OF OHIO.
In appearance, General Garfield is very COM
mapding and impressive. He stands six feet
high, and is broad shouldered and strongly built
His head Is unusually large and he forehead
remarkably high. He wears lght-brown hair
and beard, and has light-blue eyes, prominent
nose and full cheeks. He Is temperate in all
things except braln-work, and is devoted to his
wife and children. OF whom he has five living,
two having died in infancy. The two older boys
Harry and James, are attending school in New
Hampshire, while the two younger, Irwin and
Abram, live with their parents. His only daugh-
ter, Mary, is handsome, rosy-cheeked girl of
about twelve. His mother is still living, add
forms one of his family.
Gen. Garfield has house in Washington
where he spends his winters, and a farm in
Mentor, Lake county, Ohio. where he spends all
his time when not engaged at the capital. His
farm comprises 125 acres OF land, which is I'M
der high state OF cultivation, and here the
General finds recreation OF which he never
tires, in directing the field work and making
improvements in the buildings, fences and or
chards. He has never forgotten the lessons
learned when he made his living by farming,
and he is as genial and hearty friend to the
farmers who surround him as to the magnates
who court his society in Washington. He sprang
from the people, and he is emphatically one Of
the people.