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Death of General James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States firefighter_poster from the Virginian who refusedDeath of General James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States a mourning lithograph for the president felled not on the battlefield he survived but in a Washington railway depot, his eighty day deathwatch a national vigil rendered here in the solemn iconography the Gilded Age reserved for its martyrs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,