. The great American book of biography . ttendance wasdoubled ; he raised the standard ofscholarship, strengthened its faculty,and inspired everybody connectedwith it with something of his ownzeal and enthusiasm. In 1858 hemarried his old schoolmate, MissRudolph, and they began life in a little cottage fronting on the grounds of thecollege. Garfields political career maybe said to have fairly begun in the campaignof 1857-58, when he made a number of political speeches. In 1859 he waselected to the State Senate of Ohio, and became a noted member of that the war broke out in 1861, and
. The great American book of biography . ttendance wasdoubled ; he raised the standard ofscholarship, strengthened its faculty,and inspired everybody connectedwith it with something of his ownzeal and enthusiasm. In 1858 hemarried his old schoolmate, MissRudolph, and they began life in a little cottage fronting on the grounds of thecollege. Garfields political career maybe said to have fairly begun in the campaignof 1857-58, when he made a number of political speeches. In 1859 he waselected to the State Senate of Ohio, and became a noted member of that the war broke out in 1861, and President Lincoln issued his call for75,000 men, Garfield moved In the Ohio Senate to make 20,000 troops and$3,000,000 the quota of the State. In August Governor Dennison, the famouswar governor of Ohio, offered him the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 42d OhioRegiment, which was then being organized. Most of the regiment were oldstudents of Hiram College, so that he would be surrounded in the field by thesame faces among whom he had GARFIELn AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN. He soon decided to accept the THE KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN. 415 commission. His way of proceeding to drill his company was characteristic ofthe teacher as well as the soldier. He made soldiers of wooden blocks, fash-ioned in different forms to represent the officers, and with these blocks he car-ried on with his subordinates games of military tactics, until, when the regimentwas ready to go into service, it was pronounced one of the most thoroughlydrilled in the whole army. FIGHTING IN KENTUCKY. In December of 1861 Garfields regiment was ordered into service inKentucky and West Virginia. At that time the destiny of Kentucky was stillin doubt. Though much attached to the Union, it was a slave State, and strong
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