RT Journal
A1 Harris JC
T1 AN office or your life
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2012
FD November 1
VO 69
IS 11
SP 1098
OP 1098
DO 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2012.110
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2012.110
AB 
President James A. Garfield was shot in the back by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 AM July 2, 1881, less than four months into his term as the 20th President of the United States. His assailant lay in wait at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station (the current site of the National Gallery of Art). Garfield died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881. His death unified the entire country and its territories as they collectively grieved. Mourning his loss was healing in the aftermath of the War Between the States. So revered was Garfield that, in places as remote as Helena, Montana, the territorial newspaper quoted Shakespeare's Hamlet (epigraph) in an editorial expression of grief.