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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00261 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862 |
| Title | James A. Garfield to Wallace J. Ford about "the congressional affair" |
| Date | 3 July 1862 |
| Author | Garfield, James A. (James Abram) (1831-1881) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Then Brigadier General Garfield writes to a friend at home about "the congressional affair" shortly after he aided in the Battle of Corinth. Comments about his poor health and his weight loss. Back in Ohio, Garfield's friends were urging him to run for the 19th congressional district's seat, but he tells Ford he does not want his name "to go before a Convention at all unless there is more than an even chance that I would be successful." Describes military preparations for a Fourth of July celebration and the nearby Disciples of Christ, one of which he describes as a secessionist "Guerilla Captain, whom I should hang if I should catch him at his depredations." Garfield's poor health forced him to take a furlough later that month and in December he received the Republican nomination for congress. Written at the Headquarters of the 20th Brigade. Stamped envelope included. |
| Subjects | Battle Religion President Civil War Military History Congress Union Forces Union General Politics Election Military History Fourth of July Confederate States of America Death Penalty |
| People | Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) Ford, Wallace J. (b. ca. 1833) |
| Place written | Decatur, Alabama |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |