" Frémont nearly provoked a battle with Mexican General José Castro near Monterey, California.

The river was named by John C. Frémont in honor of Edward M. Kern in 1845 who, as the story goes, nearly drowned in the turbulent waters.

" Frémont won most of the North and nearly won the election.

Frémont was already under a cloud with charges of negligence in his command of the Department of the West compounded with allegations of fraud and corruption.

On June 1, 1845, John Frémont and 55 men left St. Louis, with Carson as guide, on the third expedition.

To avenge the deaths, Frémont attacked a Klamath Tribe fishing village named Dokdokwas, that most likely had nothing to do with the attack, at the junction of the Williamson River and Klamath Lake, on May 10, 1846.

Frémont trampled the warrior with his horse and saved Carson's life.

Carson rode to where Frémont was and inquired as to what should be done with the prisoners.

He joined forces with Frémont, and made Carson a lieutenant, thus initiating Carson's military career.

By the end of the Frémont expeditions and California rebellion, Carson decided to settle down with Joséfa.

Frémont received less than 600 popular votes in the slave states, with all of these coming from Delaware and Maryland.

Almost all delegates were instructed to support Frémont, with a major exception being the New York delegation, which was composed of War Democrats who supported Ulysses S. Grant.

John C. Frémont and his " California Battalion " used the Mission as a base of operations during their war with Mexico in 1846 ( see Bear Flag Revolt ).

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

( Jessie Street, in the town of Mariposa, is named for Fremont's wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, who came to Mariposa to live with him.

In 1841 with training from Nicollet, Frémont mapped portions of the Des Moines River.

On June 1, 1845, John Frémont and 55 men left St. Louis, with Carson as guide, on the third expedition.

As Carson's gun misfired, the warrior drew to shoot a poison arrow ; however, Frémont, seeing that Carson was in danger, trampled the warrior with his horse.

In 1846, with the arrival of USS Congress, Frémont was appointed lieutenant colonel of the California Battalion, also called U. S. Mounted Rifles, which he had helped form with his survey crew and volunteers from the Bear Flag Republic, now totaling 428 men.

This eyewitness account, together with others, were widely published during the presidential election of 1856, which featured John Frémont as the first anti-slavery Republican nominee versus Democrat James Buchanan.

It is widely speculated that this incident, together with other military blunders, sank Frémont ’ s political aspirations.

Ordered to march with Kearny's army back east, Frémont was arrested on August 22, 1847 when they arrived at Fort Leavenworth.

When the Army of Virginia was created June 26, to include Gen. Frémont's corps, with John Pope in command, Frémont declined to serve on the grounds that he was senior to Pope and for personal reasons.

The novel was later adapted into a television miniseries of the same name with Richard Chamberlain as Frémont.

In August 1861, Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, Union commander of the Western Department, declared martial law in Missouri, confiscated Confederate property, and emancipated their slaves.

Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, who outranked both Stockton and Frémont, had orders from President Polk and secretary of war William L. Marcy to serve as military governor.

Frémont ordered his Gen. Nathaniel Lyon to formally bring Missouri into the Union cause.

Early in June 1862 Frémont pursued the Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson for eight days, finally engaging him at Battle of Cross Keys on June 8.

On the way to his new post, he made a courtesy call to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck in St. Louis, who commandeered his services to audit the financial records of his immediate predecessor, Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, whose administration of the Department of the Missouri was tainted by charges of wasteful expenditures and fraud that left the status of $ 12 million in doubt.

He served as a division commander in the Western Army under Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, and was appointed as commander of the Western Department on November 2, 1861, after Frémont was relieved of command due to his attempt to emancipate the slaves of rebellious slave holders.

Eventually, the three independent commands of Generals McDowell, John C. Frémont, and Nathaniel P. Banks were combined into Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia and McDowell led the III Corps of that army.

As a brigadier general in Missouri, Ulysses S. Grant was ordered by Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont to start an intelligence organization.

He was an early appointee as a Union brigadier general of volunteers and served initially under Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, with whom he had a stormy relationship.

In the Department of the West under Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, Pope assumed command of the District of North and Central Missouri in July, with operational control along a portion the Mississippi River.

The army of Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, about 15, 000 strong, moved south on the Valley Pike and reached the vicinity of Harrisonburg on June 6.

He distinguished himself in the Battle of Cross Keys by fighting off an attack from Union troops under Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, and then seizing the initiative to counterattack and rout them.

Having accomplished little since taking command of the Western Department with headquarters in St. Louis, Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont formulated a plan to clear Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederates from the state and then, if possible, carry the war into Arkansas and Louisiana.

In mid-November, after Frémont was sacked and replaced by Maj. Gen. David Hunter, the Federals evacuated Springfield and withdrew to Sedalia and Rolla.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

During the U. S. Presidential Election of 1864, Douglass supported John C. Frémont.

* 1848 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.

Meanwhile, Army captain John C. Frémont led settlers in northern California to overthrow the Mexican garrison in Sonoma ( in the Bear Flag Revolt ).

* 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

That summer he met John C. Frémont on a Missouri River steamboat.

Frémont was preparing to lead his first expedition and was looking for a guide to take him to South Pass on the Continental Divide.

Along the route, Frémont and party came across a Mexican man and a boy who had survived an ambush by a band of Natives.

But upon reaching the Arkansas, Frémont suddenly made a hasty trail straight to California, without explanation.

Frémont fled Mexican-controlled California, and went north to Oregon, making camp at Klamath Lake.

On the night of May 9, 1846, Frémont received a courier, Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie, bringing messages from President James Polk.

Reviewing the messages, Frémont neglected the customary measure of posting a watchman for the camp.