The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-09-21

OF the 7 mon party.
~ THE UNION Army.
Early in the summer Of 1851 lie was
elected Colonel OF An infantry regiment
llhe Forty secondl raised IL Northern
Ohio. many OF the soldiers iu which
had been students at Hiram He took
the field IN Eastern Kentucky, was soon
put IN command of a brigade, and BIZ
masking one Of tue hardest marches ever
made by recruits, surprised aud routed
the Rebel forces. under Humphrey
Marshall, al PIketOn. From Eastern
Kentucky General Garfield was trans
ferred to Louisville. and from that
place hasiened TO Join the army OF
General Blu Il. which be reached with
his brigade IN time TO participate IL
the second days fighting at Pittsburg
Landing. He took part III the siege Of
Corinth. and in the operations along
the Memphis and Charleston railroad.
la January, 1868, he was appointed
Chief Of staff OF the Army Of the Cum.
berland, aid bore promiueut SHARE in
all the campaigns in Middle Tennessee
IL the spring aud summer Of that year.
His lust conspicuous military service
was at the battle OF Chleamauga For
his conduct at that battle be was
PROMOTED To \ MAJOR GENERALsHIP.
1t is said that he wrote all the orders
given to the army that day, and sub
united them 10 General ROsecraus for
approval. save Que. The one be did
not write was the fatal order 10 Gem
eral Wood, which was 50 worded that
1t did not correctly convey the meaning
OF the commanding General, and Nhich
CAUSED the destruction OF the right wing
of the army. The Congressional Dis
trict In which Garfield lived was the
one long made famous by Joshua Il
Giddings. The old anti slavery cham
pion grew careless of the arts of politics
toward che end of his career and came
TO look upon u nomination and re-eiec-
ton as q matter Of course. His over
confidence was taken advantage Of III
1858 by an ambitious lawyer named
HutchiGs to carry Convention against
him. The friends of GidGings never
forgave Hutchins, and cast about for
means of defeating min, aud made use
Of the popularity Of General Garfield
and nominated him while he was in the
field, without asking his consent. That
was in 1862 When ne heard of his
nomination. Garfield reflected that it
would be fifteen months before the Con-
gress would meet to which he would be-
elected, and believing, as did every
one else. that the war could not posi-
bly, last a year longer, concluded to
accept. He often expressed regrets
that he did not help fight the war
through. and said that he never would
have left the army to so to Congress
had be foreseen that the struggle
would continue beyond the year 1868.
He continued his military service up to
the time Congress met. On entering
: Congress, in December, 1868, General
Garfield was placed on the Committee
on Military Affairs, with Schenck and
Farnsworth, WHO were also fresh from
the field. He took an active part in
the debates of the House, aud won a
recognition which few members sue
coed in gaining. He was not popular
among his fellow members during his
first term. they thought him some
thing of a pedant. because he sone-
times showed his scholarship in his
speeches, and they were jealous of his
prominence.
Some ten years ago, finding how un-
satisfactory life was III hotels and
clearinghouse. he bought a lot of
ground on the corner Of Thirteenth
and streets. in Washington, and built
a plain, substantial tAros-stoTy house.
His children grew up in
PLEASANT HOME SURROUNDINGS,
And the house became the center of
much simple and cordial hospitality.
Five or six years ago the little cottage
at Hiram was sold, and for some time
the only residence the Gariields had in
his district was summer house he
built on Little Mountain, bold eleva-
ton IN Lake county, which commanded
view of thirty miles of Lake Erie.
-Four years ago he bought farm in
Mentor. In the same county, lying on
both sides of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad. The
farmhouse is a low, old fashioned
story and half building, but its linn
tied accommodations have been sup
plemented by numerous outbuildiugs,
one of which Garfield used during the
last campaign for Office ana library
purposes.
HIS SOLID ATTAINMENTs
Aud amiable social qualities enabled
him to overcome this prejudice during
his second term, and he became Oh
terms of close friendship with the best
men IN both Houses. His committee
service. during his sec nd term, was on
the Ways and Means, which was quite
to his taste. as IL gave him an opportn-
nifty to prosecute the stadies ia finance
and political economy which be bad
always felt fondness for. He was
bard worker and a great reader in
those days. going home with his arms
full OF books from the Congressional
Library. and sitting up late OF nights
to read them. 1t wss then that he laid
the foundation of his convictions ON
the subject of national finance, which
he has since held 10 firmly, amid all
the storms OF political agitation. lie
was renominaied in 1894. without OPP
position, bat in 1866 Mr. Hutchins,
whom he had supplanted, made an ct
fort to defeat him. Hutchins canyassed
the District thoroughly, but the Con-
vention nominated Garfield By accla-
nation In 1872 the Liberals and
Democrats united to beat him. but his
majority was larger than ever. Io