Line of Descent—Family Tradition—Indian Fighters—Grandfather
Rutherford—Chloe Smith Hayes—Father and
Mother—Characteristics—Tribute to a Sister—General Character
of Ancestors[9]
Birthplace—University—Springs—Kossuth's Allusion—Early
Instructors—Sent East—College Life—Began the Study of Law—At
Harvard Law School—Story, Greenleaf, Webster, Agassiz, and
Longfellow—Admission to Bar[15]
Commences Practice—First Case—Partnership with Ralph P.
Buckland—Settles in Cincinnati—Becoming Known—Literary
Club—Nancy Farrer Case—Summons Case—Marriage—Law
Partners—City Solicitor[22]
Appointed Major—Judge Advocate—Lieutenant-Colonel—South
Mountain—Wounded—Fighting while Down—After Morgan—Battle of
Cloyd Mountain—Charge up the Mountain—Enemy's Works Carried by
Storm—First Battle of Winchester—Berryville[31]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]