It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it!… - James A. Garfield

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It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it! It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines.

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About James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (19 November 1831 – 19 September 1881) was the 20th president of the United States of America in 1881, and the second U.S. president to be assassinated. His term was the second shortest in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in office for a total of just six months and fifteen days. A Republican, he supported civil rights and freedoms for African Americans.

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Birth Name: James Abram Garfield
Alternative Names: James Garfield J. A. Garfield J. Garfield President Garfield
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