James Garfield #5: To the House (1863-1866); Topics covered include: Congressman, political alignment to the Radical Republicans, member Military Affairs Committee, conflict with the Camden and Amboy Railroad, death of daughter Eliza ("Trot") Garfield, affair with Lucia Calhoun, Wade-Davis Bill, 13th Amendment, end of the Civil War, assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Presidency of Andrew Johnson and conflicts with Congress, member House Ways & Means Committee, tries case before the Supreme Court, and advocates for establishing the Department of Education
Key people: Robert Schenck, Alexander Long, Eliza ("Trot") Garfield, Lucretia Garfield, Lucia Calhoun, Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, and Jeremiah Black
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