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Garfield Memorial Day Tribute to James A Garfield
The Washington memorial service on February 27 1882 celebrated Garfield's noble character and brilliant military career. Blaine delivered a comprehensive eulogy detailing his English Puritan and French Huguenot heritage, frontier poverty transformed into opportunity, and rapid rise from Williams College to Congress and notable Civil War commands.
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