OM MAJOR TO MAJOR-GENERAL.

Opequan--Morass--First Over--Intrepidity--Official
Reports--Assault on Fisher's Hill--Battle of Cedar
Creek--Commands a Division--Promoted on Field--His Wounds--A
Hundred Days under Fire 43

CHAPTER VI.

IN CONGRESS.

Nomination--Refuses to Leave Army--Election
Incident--Election--Course in Congress--Services on Library
Committee--Votes on Various Questions--Submits Plan of
Constitutional Amendments--Re-nominated by
Acclamation--Re-elected by Increased Majority--Overwhelmed with
Soldiers' Letters--Character as Congressman 51

CHAPTER VII.

ELECTED GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

Party of States Rights--Their Convention--Platform--Nomination of
Thurman--Republican Convention and Platform--Nomination of
General Hayes--Opening Speech at Lebanon--Thurman at
Waverly--National Interest Aroused--Hayes
Victorious--Inaugural--First Annual Message--Second Annual
Message 62

CHAPTER VIII.

SECOND ELECTION AS GOVERNOR.

Re-nomination--Democratic Platform--Nomination of
Rosecrans--Declines--Pendleton Nominated--Hayes at
Wilmington--Election--Second Inaugural--Civil Service
Reform--Short Addresses--Letters--Annual Message--Democratic
Estimate of It--Davidson Fountain Address--Message of 1872--Work
Accomplished 90

CHAPTER IX.

THIRD TIME ELECTED GOVERNOR.

The Senatorship Declined--Army Banquet Speech--Third Time
Nominated for Congress--Glendale Speech--Declines a Federal
Office--Making a Home--Nomination for
Governor--Platform--Serenade Speech--Democratic Convention and
Platform--Marion Speech of
Hayes--Woodford--Grosvenor--Schurz--Inflation Drivel--Interest
in the Contest--Honest Money Triumphant--Third Inaugural 124

CHAPTER X.

NOMINATION TO THE PRESIDENCY.

Early Suggestions--Letters on Subject--Garfield Letter--Action of
State Convention--Cincinnati Convention--Course of his Friends--
First and Second Day's Events--Speech of Noyes--Balloting--
Nominated on Seventh Ballot--Officially Notified--Habits--Personal
Appearance--Family--Letter of Acceptance--Character as a Soldier,
Magistrate, and Man--Domestic Surroundings 143

APPENDIX.

I. Speech at Lebanon, Ohio, August 5, 1867 167

II. Speech at Sidney, Ohio,