Title
John C Fremont, American soldier, explorer, and Presidential candidate, 1862-1867. Artist: Unknown
Caption
John C Fremont, American soldier, explorer, and Presidential candidate, 1862-1867. Fremont (1813-1890) undertook several surveying expeditions to the West in the 1830s and 1840s. Entering politics, he was the Republican Party's first presidential candidate and the first candidate from a major party to run on an anti-slavery platform, but lost the 1856 election to James Buchanan. Fremont was a Major-General in the Union Army in the American Civil War, but was dismissed by President Lincoln after he refused to reverse his declaration of martial law in Missouri, which Lincoln feared would drive the state over to the Confederate side. He later commanded an army in West Virginia but resigned after several defeats at the hand of Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1862
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Reference
HRM19C24_380
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
50,2Mb (4,5Mb) / 11,4in x 17,1in / 3423 x 5122 (300dpi)