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"North American Review" from President Garfield’s Library Addressing McClellan's Removal From Command Sanctioned by Lincoln, Article by George Ticknor

The first Presidential memorial library, completed at the Lawnfield estate in Ohio by the widow of James Garfield four years after his assassination, houses almost 3,000 books that were used and treasured by the 20th president. Books were a scarce commodity to young James, who lost his father before the age of two and was raised by his mother who struggled to maintain a humble existence. Both James Garfield and his wife Lucretia were voracious readers and amassed a large collection of books. Several years ago, dozens of his books were de-accessioned, including this: Soft Cover Periodical: The North American Review., Volume 130., Number 6., June 1880. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 8vo, 626 pps. followed by 8 pps. of advertising. Written in unknown hand on the front cover, “The Honorable / Jas. A. Garfield / Mentor / Ohio”. Edge wear and soiling to covers and page block. Small loss at the spine, else very good condition.

Found in the book, possibly as a bookmark, a partially printed certificate completed in manuscript, entitling Garfield’s ten-year-old son, Irvin, to a free subscription to an illustrated children’s magazine, Our Little Ones, beginning November 1880 through October 1881. The period of this certificate coincides with Garfield’s election and short-lived Presidency, suggesting that Garfield used this book as President. Two articles of potential interest to the President might have been, “Popular Fallacies about Russia”, by E. W. Stoughton, and part III of “McClellan’s Last Service to the Republic”, by George Ticknor Curtis. In Curtis’ article, “we undertook to give an account of some of the circumstances attending General McClellan’s relations to the Administration of President Lincoln, and especially of the strange occurrence of his removal from command after the battle of Antietam” He concludes, “Among all the distinguished military men of this or any other age, of whom the world knows so much as it knows of McClellan, there has been no man whose ambition was so perfectly unalloyed by the base element of self-seeking at the expense of others, and no man who has suffered so much injustice from official superiors.”

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