While 'in office' for six months and fifteen days, President Garfield, a Republican, served for less

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GARFIELDS ASSASSINATION
By Cadet Kitchens
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While in office for six months and fifteen days,
President Garfield, a Republican, served for less
than four months before being fatally shot on
July 2, 1881.
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James Abram Garfield was born in Orange
Township, now Moreland Hills, Ohio. His father
died in 1833, when James Abram was two years old
he was brought up and cared for by his mother, a
brother, and an uncle..
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With the start of the Civil War, Garfield
enlisted in the Union Army, and was assigned to
command the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. General
Don Carlos Buell assigned Colonel Garfield the
task of driving Confederate forces out of eastern
Kentucky in November 1861, giving him the 18th
Brigade for the campaign.
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One bullet grazed Garfield's arm the second
bullet lodged in his spine and could not be
found, although scientists today think that the
bullet was near his lung.
Alexander Graham Bell devised a metal detector
specifically for the purpose of finding the
bullet, but the metal bed frame Garfield was
lying on made the instrument malfunction. Because
metal bed frames were relatively rare, the cause
of the instrument's deviation was unknown at the
time.
Garfield became increasingly ill over a period of
several weeks due to infection, which caused his
heart to weaken. He remained bedridden in the
White House with fevers and extreme pains.
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An 1881 Puck cartoon shows Garfield finding a
baby at his front door with a tag marked "Civil
Service Reform, compliments of R.B. Hayes".
Hayes, his predecessor in the presidency is seen
in the background dressed like a woman and
holding a bag marked "R.B. Hayes' savings,
Fremont, Ohio".
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THE END President Garfield's Assasination By
Cadet Kitchens