Organization
of the Forty-second Ohio Regiment was completed in August 1861 with the
selection of its lieutenant colonel. Leading Ohio troops in numerous
engagements, he won such rapid promotion that he became a major general on
September 19, 1863.
Three
months later, citizens of the Buckeye State elected the two-year veteran to
Congress. He left Federal forces on December 5 to take the seat he had won
without waging a campaign. Eighteen years later, James A. Garfield was
inaugurated as out twentieth president.
