3-066-023 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General J. A. Garfield, President of the United States, 1881. 'It is considered all but certain that the attempted assassination, on Saturday morning, at Washington, was the act of Charles Jules Guiteau alone...[The attempt took place] in the waiting room at the station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway...Assistance was sent for, and he was removed to the White House. The President soon recovered consciousness, and ordered a telegraphic message to be sent to his wife...The calm cheerfulness which the President has shown has astonished all who have come into the sickroom. From the first, Mr. Garfield understood the serious nature of his wound, and ordered the doctors to hide nothing from him. When told that there was little hope of saving him, he remarked, "God's will be done. I am ready to die." We are happy to say that the physicians' bulletins, telegraphed to London several times a day, to the time of our present writing on Wednesday evening, are decidedly favourable; and it is confidently expected that the President will recover'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.