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.

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

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

Later, Carson told Jasper O ' Farrell that he regretted killing the men, but that the act was only one such that Frémont ordered him to commit.

The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Grant, who was headquartered at Cairo, was given an open order by Union General John C. Frémont to make " demonstrations ", not including attack, against the Confederate Army at Belmont.

After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.

The New York World was particularly interested in undermining the National Union Party and ran a series of articles setting forth John C. Frémont ’ s qualifications.

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.

Fitch carried impressive credentials: he was a former state legislator from California, had been Nevada's Representative to the United States House of Representatives, was former general counsel for Brigham Young and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah Territory, and a close friend of Arizona's governor John C. Frémont.

Seward did not seriously compete for the presidential nomination ( won by John C. Frémont ) in 1856, but sought and was expected to receive the nomination in 1860.

Observing events from Europe, Karl Marx, who was ideologically sympathetic to Frémont, contemptuously regarded Seward as a " Republican Richelieu " and the " Demosthenes of the Republican Party " who had sabotaged Frémont's presidential ambitions.

One of the most notable beneficiaries of this wealth was the famed explorer and 1856 Republican presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, for whom the local hospital is named.

It was named in honor of John C. Frémont, a general, explorer, and politician.

Fremont County was named for John Charles Frémont, an explorer of the American West, Senator from California, and 1856 Republican presidential candidate.

John Charles Frémont or Fremont ( January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890 ), was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

But in John Charles Frémont: Character as Destiny, Andre Rolle wrote that Charles Fremon was originally named Louis-René Frémont and had changed his name to Charles Fremon or Frémon upon emigrating to Virginia.

After attending the College of Charleston from 1829 to 1831, Frémont was appointed a teacher of mathematics aboard the sloop USS Natchez.

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

In 1848, it was renamed to honor John C. Frémont, " the Great Pathfinder ", in part because there was already a Brockville in Indiana.

Unknown to Frémont and the Bear Flag supporters, war had already been formally declared on May 13, 1846, but the news did not reach California until early July, when the frigate USS Savannah and the two sloops, USS Cyane and USS Levant, of the United States Navy captured Monterey, California.

General Kearny had orders to assume command of U. S. forces in California, but before entering Alta California from Santa Fe, Kearny sent back 200 of his 300 mounted dragoons after hearing from messenger Kit Carson that all of California had already been captured by Commodore Robert F. Stockton and his 400 combined sailors and Marines, and John C. Frémont and his approximate 400 man California Battalion.

The brothers first arrived in California as soldiers, serving under Colonel Frémont during the Mexican War.

In late 1846 Frémont, acting under orders from Commodore Robert F. Stockton, led a military expedition of 300 men to capture Santa Barbara, California, during the Mexican-American War.

Santa Barbara fell bloodlessly to a battalion of American soldiers under John C. Frémont on December 27, 1846, during the Mexican-American War, and after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 it became part of the expanding United States.

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.

The Bear Flag revolutionaries were soon combined with John C. Frémont's 60 man exploratory force to form the U. S. sponsored California Battalion under the command of Frémont.

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 Republicans nominated John Frémont under the slogan of " Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Frémont.

* I Corps, Army of Virginia ; commanded by Franz Sigel ( this corps had been the Mountain Department under John Frémont ; it eventually became the XI Corps, Army of the Potomac )

Lincoln and Johnson ran together under the banner of the National Union Party, which brought together Republicans ( with the exception of some hard-line abolitionist Radical Republicans who backed John C. Frémont, who eventually dropped out of the race after brokering a deal with Lincoln ) and the War Democrats ( the minority of Democrats who backed Lincoln's prosecution of the war, as opposed to the Peace Democrats, or Copperheads, who favored a negotiated settlement with the Confederates ).

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.

On June 26, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln ordered that " the troops of the Mountain Department, heretofore under command of General John C. Frémont, shall constitute the First Army Corps, under the command of General Frémont.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Frémont nearly provoked a battle with Gen. José Castro near Monterey, camped at the summit of what is now named Fremont Peak.

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.