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James A. Garfield Camp No. 1 was originally chartered in Baltimore in the early 1880s. Reformed in 1995, Garfield Camp No. 1 serves the central Maryland region including Baltimore City and county, Carroll County, Harford County, Howard County and Anne Arundel County.
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James Abram Garfield
Twentieth President of the United States
James Abram Garfield was born in Ohio in 1831. At age 17, with little education, he struck out on his own to drive canal boats; he returned home, seriously ill, six weeks later. Between 1848 and 1858 Garfield devoted his life to religion and education; he attended a seminary, and from 1851 to 1854 he studied and taught at the the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. Garfield left the Ecelctic Institute to attend Williams College in Massachusetts; he graduated from Williams in 1856 and returned to Western Reserve Eclectic Institute as a Professor of Classics.
In 1859 Garfield was elected to the Ohio state Senate as a Republican. Having turned against slavery when he returned to the Ecelectic Institute, Garfield opposed slavery and secession and strongly supported the idea of preserving the Union, by force if necessary.
In the Civil War, Garfield joined and recruited for the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Garfield led a brigade of Union troops that drove the Confederate Army out of eastern Kentucky; he also led troops at Shiloh and Corinth, and served as Chief of Staff under General William S. Rosecrans at Tullahoma and Chickamauga.
During his Army career, Garfield rose from Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General. Garfield's victories, however, were not limited to the battlefield: in 1862, the citizens of Ohio has elected him as a member of Congress. In 1863 Garfield resigned his Army commission and assumed his seat in Washington.
Garfield won re-election to Washington for 18 years, eventually becoming the leading Republican in the House. In 1880, on the 36th ballot at the Republican National Convention, Garfield became the "dark horse" candidate for the Presidency and in 1881, upon defeating the Democratic nominee - General Winfield Scott Hancock - became the 20th President of the United States.
On July 2, 1881 - six months after taking office - Garfield became the second President to be shot while in office. Shot by Charles A. Guiteau in a Washingon train station, Garfield recouperated and, after what seemed to be a period of marked improvement, died of infection and internal hemmorage on September 19, 1881. The sad fact is that the shot didn't kill the President - the infection and subsequent "hemmorage" from which Garfield died was caused by unsterile instruments and doctor's fingers used to probe for the assassin's bullet.
SOURCES:
The Presidents of the United States
Encyclopedia Americana
Flip Card - James A. Garfield
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