| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1881/07/02 | Charles J Guiteau, a disgruntled office-seeker, shoots Garfield twice in the back as James Blaine and the President walk through Baltimore and Potomac Railroad's 6th St Station in Washington (Built 1873, razed 1908). | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Washington, DC |
| 1881/07/26 | Alex Bell uses a metal detector of his own invention to try find the bullet in Garfield. He was unsuccessful due, in part, to interference from Garfield's metal bed and Dr D Willard Bliss insistence of only examining the President's right side. | The White House, Washington, DC |
| 1881/08/02 | After Bell had made adjustments to his device, testing it on another Civil War veteran and then a side of beef and a bag of cotton he'd hidden bullets in, he reexamines Garfield's right side at the White House. | |
| 1881/09/19 | James A Garfield dies in the Francklyn Cottage (lost), at Elberon by the sea, from infection and blood poisoning, complications from his gunshot wounds. | Long Branch, New Jersey |
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