Volume 11 , Issue 39

1880 - Political Events

"War is Hell," said a U.S. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, who was 60 in 1880, in an address to a Columbus, Ohio, reunion of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic). Sherman went on to say, "There is many a boy here who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come."

Old Guard Republican "Stalwarts" try to gain a third term for President Grant, a deadlocked G.O.P. (Grand Old Party) convention selects James Abram Garfield, 48, of Ohio on the 36th ballot. He wins 214 electoral votes to 155 for the Democrats, but he beats hero Winfield S. Hancock by only 9,464 votes.
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