1. Ohio Leaders in the Civil War
... he never doubted his ability to command. He offered his services to the Governor and believed he was entitled to colonel or brigadier general. Garfield became lieutenant colonel of the Forty-second Regiment. He had no officers to instruct, no troops to command, no horses, no uniforms. He ... general two years later. During this time, the North wanted to restore the Union without interfering in the "established institutions of the States."# Garfield believed that the eradication of slavery and destruction of the planter class were necessary before the Union could be restored.# Meanwhile, ...
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