Destiny of the Republic - By Candice Millard Page 0,126

available: Conwell, The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, 37.

6 Soon after their arrival, they met: Ibid., 34.

7 In 1829 the two couples: Ibid., 37.

8 When Abram had seen the wildfire: Ridpath, The Life and Work of James A. Garfield, 21–22.

9 “Let us never praise poverty”: Garfield to J. H. Rhodes, November 19, 1862, in Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 36.

10 Between them, working as hard as they could: Ridpath, The Life and Work of James A. Garfield, 23.

11 So little did they have to spare: Alger, From Canal Boy to President, 5.

12 “received no aid, worked and won”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 11.

13 “If I ever get through a course of study”: Ibid., 53.

14 She came from a long line: Conwell, The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, 35.

15 She donated some of her land: Alger, From Canal Boy to President, 6.

16 “Whatever else happens”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 15.

17 Although he could not swim: Ibid., 22.

18 Garfield’s first job on the canal: Ibid., 23.

19 Now it was midnight: Ibid., 24.

20 “Carefully examining it”: Ibid., 24–25.

21 “Providence only could have saved”: New York Times, September 20, 1881.

22 “As I approached the door”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 25.

23 “I took the money”: Ibid., 26.

24 By the fall of 1851, Garfield had transformed: The Western Reserve Eclectic Institute would become Hiram College in 1867.

25 “It was without a dollar of endowment”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 44.

26 Unable to afford tuition: Dean, “Reminiscences of Garfield: Garfield the Student, the Eclectic Institute,” Hiram College Archives.

27 “tread was firm and free”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 46.

28 “The ice is broken”: “Rough Sketch of an Introduction to a Life of General Garfield,” typescript, Hiram College Archives.

29 His day began at 5:00 a.m.: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 58.

30 “If at any time I began to flag”: Ibid., 45.

31 So vigorously did Garfield: Shaw, Lucretia, 9.

32 “There is a high standard”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 74.

33 “I am aware that I launch out”: Garfield, Diary, August 23, 1859, 1:340–41.

34 “no heart to think of anything”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 160.

35 Four months after Confederate: Ridpath, The Life and Work of James A. Garfield, 92.

36 “pride and grief commingled”: Garfield to Lucretia Garfield, September 23, 1863, in Shaw, Crete and James, 189.

37 “I hope to have God on my side”: Perry, Touched with Fire, 60.

38 Garfield’s regiment did not have: Ibid., 59–63.

39 After he received his orders: Conwell, The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, 139.

40 In the end, the struggle: Perry, Touched with Fire, 76–87.

41 “The [Confederate] regiment and battery”: Ibid.

42 “resting there after the fatigue”: Peskin, Garfield, 118–19.

43 “something went out of him”: Ibid., 19. Although Garfield had no sympathy for the Confederates, he could not help but admire the passion with which they fought for their beliefs, no matter how misguided. “Let us at least learn from our enemies,” he wrote. “I have seen their gallantry in battle, their hoping against hope amid increasing disaster, and traitors though they are, I am proud of their splendid courage when I remember that they are Americans.”

44 “By thundering volley”: Ibid., 233.

45 “like throwing the whole current”: Garfield, Diary, November 2, 1855, 1:273. Although Garfield was a fierce and effective advocate for rights for freed slaves, his vocabulary at times reflected the racial prejudice of the time. While at the same time praising black men’s courage and defending their right to fight for “what was always their own,” he could casually refer to a neighborhood as “infested with negroes.”

46 “trust to God and his muscle”: Ibid., October 6, 1857.

47 “For what else are we so fearfully”: Peskin, Garfield, 234.

48 “A dark day for our country”: Garfield, Diary, December 2, 1859.

49 In the fall of 1862: Garfield defeated D. B. Woods 13,288 votes to 6,763.

50 “I have resigned my place in the army”: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 355–56. Garfield did not hold Lincoln in high esteem. He thought the president was not strong enough, and he feared that Lincoln would lose his bid for reelection because of his “painful lack of