Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — Garfield’s Last Letter. [ARTICLE]

Garfield’s Last Letter.

Washington, July 4.—By a singular coincidence the last letter written by President Garfield before he was shot was addressed to his opponent in the last campaign, Maj. Gen. W. S. Hancock. It was dated Friday, and refilled to the appointment recently conferred upon Colonel Mitchell, one of General Hancock’s aids-de-camp-It was friendly and pleasant in tone and could not but have pleased the recipient. The letter informed Gen. Hancock that Col. Mitchell had been appointed assistant adjutant general of the army, and after apologizing for depriving the general’s staff of an excellent officer, concluded: “While your staff, general, loses an ornament, the army gains an assistant adjutant general, of whom it may well feel proud.”