Return Home.--Appointed Professor, then President, of Hiram Institute.--His Popularity as a Teacher.--Answers Prof Denton.--Marriage. 67 CHAPTER XI. Law Studies.--Becomes Interested in Politics.--Delivers Oration at the Williams Commencement.--Elected State Senator.--His Courage and Eloquence. 74 CHAPTER XII. War Declared Between the North and South.--Garfield Forms a Regiment from the Western Reserve.--Is Appointed Colonel.--General Buell's Order.--Garfield Takes Charge of the 18th Brigade.--Jordan's Perilous Journey.--Bradley Brown.--Plan of a Campaign.--March Against Marshall, 80 CHAPTER XIII. Opening of Hostilities.--Brave Charge of the Hiram Students.--Giving the Rebels "Hail Columbia".--Sheldon's Reinforcement.--The Rebel Commander Falls.--His Army Retreats in Confusion. 93 CHAPTER XIV. Garfield's Address to his Soldiers.--Starvation Stares them in the Face.--Garfield Takes Command of the Sandy Valley.--Perilous Trip up the River.--Garfield's Address to the Citizens of Sandy Valley.--Pound Gap.--Garfield Resolves to Seize the Guerillas.--The Old Mountaineer.--Successful Attack.--General Buell's Message.--Garfield is Appointed Brigadier General. 100 CHAPTER XV. Garfield takes Command of the Twentieth Brigade.--Battles of Shiloh and Corinth.--The Fugitive Slave.--Attack of Malaria.--Home Furlough.--Summoned to Washington.--Death of his Child.--Ordered to Join General Rosecrans.--Kirke's Description of Garfield. 110 CHAPTER XVI. Rosecrans Quarrels with the War Department.--Garfield as Mediator.--Remarkable Military Document.--The Tullahoma Campaign.--Insurrection Averted.--Chattanooga.--Battle of Chickamauga.--Brave Defence of Gen. Thomas.--Garfield's Famous Ride. 115 CHAPTER XVII. Rosecran's Official Report.--Sixteen Years Later.--Promotion to Major General.--Elected to Congress.--Resigns his Commission in the Army.--Endowed by Nature and Education for a Public Speaker.--Moral Character.--Youngest Member of House of Representatives.--One Secret of Success.--First Speech.--Wade Davis Manifesto.--Extracts from Various Speeches. 125 CHAPTER XVIII. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.--The New York Mob.--Garfield's Memorable Words.--Eulogy upon Lincoln.--Memorial Oration.--Eulogy upon Senator Morton.--Extracts from other Orations. 138 CHAPTER XIX. The Home in Washington.--Fruit Between Leaves.--Classical Studies.--Mrs. Garfield.--Variety of Reading.--Favorite Verses. 147 CHAPTER XX.