. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD. 315. He never had much schooling, as it was only three monthseach winter that his parents could send him to the district school,but most excellent use he made of his scant opportunities. Atfourteen he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and three years laterhe worked on the canal. When he wasa mere lad, he longed to be a sailor,but he fell sick, and after that he neverseemed to long for the sea. The little village of Orange, Ohio,where he was born on th
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD. 315. He never had much schooling, as it was only three monthseach winter that his parents could send him to the district school,but most excellent use he made of his scant opportunities. Atfourteen he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and three years laterhe worked on the canal. When he wasa mere lad, he longed to be a sailor,but he fell sick, and after that he neverseemed to long for the sea. The little village of Orange, Ohio,where he was born on the nineteenth ofNovember, 1831, was soon to see him nomore as a resident, for in March, 1849,he left home and entered Geauga Semi-nary at Chester, and soon was fitted toteach a district school. But he had towork at his trade (the carpenters) to james abram garfield. help pay his way, his mother not being able to assist him, saveby a loan of # which she furnished him the first term thathe was there. Every morning and evening, and Saturdays, aswell as his entire summer vacation, he spent in labor at thebench. The next three years he passed in
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