Let's call it History Week at the Oregon at War blog. Today, July 2, is the 131st anniversary of the day that Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield, a former Union general.

C.W. Goodyear’s excellent new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, offers an extensive study of an academic, general, and statesman whose death has overshadowed his ...

Gen. James Garfield during Civil War. As the 150 th anniversary of the Civil War battles around Chattanooga and Chickamauga are being remembered this fall, ...

The legacy of James A. Garfield, the only U.S. president to call Greater Cleveland home, enjoyed a banner year in 2011, with the publication of several good books that explore his life, Brent ...

James Garfield was born on Nov. 19, 1831 in Orange... The dark-horse candidate became the last log-cabin president and the second to be assassinated in office. James Garfield was born on Nov. 19 ...

GEN. GARFIELD ON THE TARIFF.; HE STATES HIS VIEWS VERY FRANKLY IN A PRIVATE LETTER MADE PUBLIC. Share full article. Jan. 9, 1880. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Thus overtaken, James Garfield can only politely surrender to popular will. His hat lifts to reveal a kindly smile. Eyes like summer lightning invite the people to come along, if they'd like.

James Garfield was the last president to be born in a log cabin. When James was born in 1831, Ohio was on the edge of the American frontier and had been a state for fewer than 30 years.

General Garfield is eminently a practical politician, and we need not fear that he will make a visionary administration, reaching out after the impossible, or trying to take ten steps at once.

Garfield, born poor in Cuyahoga County, was a teacher, Ohio state senator, U.S. congressman and a Civil War general despite having no prior military experience.

Major-Gen. James Abram Garfield, who was yesterday called to lead the Republican Party in the coming national campaign, is a man who may truly be said to have carved his own pathway, unaided and ...

Traditional accounts of the era depict a procession of bearded nonentities occupying the White House, none more obscure than James A. Garfield (1831-1881). A Union general and politically adroit ...