Early Years
Biography of Fremont A "USA Yesterday" Biography with some inaccuracies. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2700_132/ai_108791284 | 1813 Jackson's duel with Jesse Benton. Fremont was almost killed during this duel when a bullet went through a wall and passed his crib by inches.
http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/hs/hs23.htm | Biography of Famous Georgians. Fremont was born January 21, 1813, in Savannah, Georgia, to Anne Whiting Prior of Richmond, Virginia and Jean Charles Fremon of Lyon, France. Fremon changed the family name to Fremont to sound more American.
http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ga_jcf.htm | Joel Roberts Poinsett Through Poinsett's influence, Fremont was accepted as a teacher of mathematics aboard the Sloop of War Natchez, and later Poinsett recommended Fremont to the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Poinsett is also remembered as the US Ambassador to Mexico.
http://www.sumter-sc.com/AboutSumter/History_Poinsett.aspx | Geological Surveys Before the Civil War. by permitting the Topographical Bureau of the U.S. Army to use $5,000 of its appropriation for geological investigations and the construction of a geological map of the United States
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circular/c1050/before.htm | US Corps of Topographical Engineers. An excellent site on the history of the Corps of Topographical Engineers.
http://www.topogs.org/ | John James Abert ...1814 he was appointed a topographical engineer with the brevet rank of major...
http://www.virtualology.com/johnjamesabert/ |
Exploring the West
Famous American Surveyors. Includes biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Lewis and Clarke, Mason and Dixon, as well as Fremont.
http://www.surveysinc.com/history/surveyors.html | Fremont's Navigation. Second Lieutenant John Charles Fremont's second Topographical Expedition left Missouri in June of 1843, and, mapping the Oregon Trail, had traveled to Fort Vancouver...
http://www.longcamp.com | Sutter's Republic. Sutter's republic existed mostly in his own mind. Mexico was infirmly in the saddle but in the saddle nevertheless.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-sutr.html#one | California History. Library of Congress Web-site including a brief history of California in which Fremont's 2nd. and 3rd. Expeditions are mentioned.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbstates.html | Bent's Fort. Owned by the partnership of Charles and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain, the fort played a prominent role as a supply base for the expeditions of John Fremont...
http://www.olympus.net/personal/jpfletcher/cherokeetrail/BentsFort/bents.html | Filling in the Map. General discussion of the exploration of the west by explorers and mountain men.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/explore.html | Fremont's 2nd. Expedition. "Las Vegas's First 100" Fremont went through the area which would become Las Vegas during his 2nd. Expedition. The site has an excellent biography relating to his second expedition and the area around Las Vegas.
http://www.1st100.com/part1/fremont.html | Mormon Emigration. By 1845 Mormon church leaders had examined a wealth of information on the western country of America and prominent among the maps, guides and reports which assisted them in selecting a location for settlement was Fremont's Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/into/lvnauvoo/09fremd.html | Fremont as Plant Collector Knowing about the people who collected, studied, described, named, and cataloged the plants of an area gives us a better understanding of the history of that area http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/biographies%20of%20naturalists.htm | Fremont's 4th expedition. John Charles Fremont's fourth expedition attempted a winter crossing through the San Juan Mountains late in the winter of 1848. The expedition met disaster high in the snow-covered La Garita Mountains.
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_national_forest/co/see_riog.htm | Envisioning the American West. The fundamental importance of the scientific explorations in the mid-nineteenth century American West is illustrated by the fact that the federal funding subsidy for the reconnaissances accounted for one-quarter to one third of the annual federal budget between 1843 and 1856 (Goetzmann 1986, 178).
http://www.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/envision.html |
California
Captain John Charles Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt The first California Volunteer Militia was organized by, the man historical writings refer to as "The Pathfinder...
http://www.militarymuseum.org/fremont.html | Bear Flag Republic. The San Francisco Museum provided a good Web-site on the Bear Flag Revolt.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/fremont.html | 1849 Mining Art. An on-line exhibition of early California mining art at the Oakland Museum of California.
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/art-mnrsierr.html | Fremont's Mariposa home. General John Charles Fremont, the famous topographer and explorer, made his home here.
http://www.visitmariposa.net/history.htm | Rancho Las Mariposa Two years later, Fremont's unwanted tract of land turned out to be the richest rancho in California...
http://www.sierrafoothillmagazine.com/fremont.html | Senator John C. Fremont Single page biography of Fremont provided by the US Senate
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000374 |
Presidential Campaign
1856 Election. Republicans gathered to choose their first presidential candidate at Philadelphia's Musical Fund Hall in mid June.
http://www.beyondbooks.com/gop00/2d.htm | Formation of the Republican Party. The Republican party evolved during the 1850's when the issue of slavery forced divisions within the existing Whig and Democratic-Republican parties...
http://www.ellasharp.org/pages/RepParty.html | Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fremont The original Republican Party ran two presidential campaigns, Fremont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln broke from the Republican Party and ran as a Union party candidate in 1864.
http://www.massgop.com/v2_history.htm | the 1964 Election Lincoln had to overcome nomination challenges by Salmon P. Chase and John C. Fremont. Both Chase and Fremont withdrew from the race thus assuring Lincoln of the election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1864 |
Civil War
Brief Biography focusing on the Civil War Fremont's major Civil War contribution was more political than military...
http://www.civilwarhome.com/fremontbio.htm | Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. Nearly ten years have passed since the close of the civil war in America, and yet no satisfactory history thereof is accessible to the public...
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext01/1shrm10.txt | Fremont's Emancipation Proclamation. "All persons who shall be taken with arms in their hands within these lines shall be tried by court martial, and, if found guilty, will be shot. The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri, who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASproclamation.htm | Fremont in Missouri John C. Fremont, the eminent explorer and meritorious soldier, who was in Europe when the war began...
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/periodicals/ahotcw/section07/208.cfm | Fremont Body Guard ...Without question it was one of the finest bodies of cavalry ever seen in the United States service...
http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/fremont.html | Fremont's Ironclad Navy USS Benton, a 1033-ton ironclad river gunboat, was converted from a catamaran snagboat at Saint Louis, Missouri, for the Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla...
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-b/benton.htm | Mississippi Union Ironclads. She had been purchased by General Fremont while he was commandant of the Department of the Missouri...
http://www.rugreview.com/cw/cwgg.htm | John C. Fremont's Report of the Battle of Cross Keys I arrived at this place to-day. My officers have been so much engaged with marching duties since the battle of the 8th, at Cross Keys...
http://www.swcivilwar.com/FremontCrossKeysReport.html | Mountain Department Early in June he pursued the Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson for 8 days, finally engaging him at Cross Keys...
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/Bios/Fremont.htm | Fremont Resigns The AOV combined the Mountain Department of John C. Fremont, Banks' Department of the Shenandoah, and McDowells' Department of the Rappohannock...
http://www.civilwarguns.com/2ndmnasas.html |
To the End
Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company ...The directors also included John C. Fremont...
http://www.texaspacificrailway.org/history/southerntranscontinentalrailwaycompany.html | Prescott, Arizona House The FREMONT HOUSE, built in 1875, was the home of Jessie Benton and John Charles Fremont, while John served as the fifth territorial governor of Arizona (1878-1881).
http://www.sharlot.org/exhibits/perm/ | 1878 Governor of the Arizona Territory. In Arizona, he is only known for what little he did while governor of Arizona and how little time he spent in the territory.
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/Fremont.html | Tucson, Arizona House Fremont and his Daughter (his wife was living in Los Angeles, California) are said to have rented this home during a time when he was Governor of The Arizona Territory
http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/3dc9/#TL | 1890 Fremont's Grave. Fremont is buried in Rockland Cemetery, Sparkill, New York, USA. His wife, Jessie, and several of his children and grandchildren are buried near him.
http://findagrave.com/pictures/2615.html | 1898 Transmississippi stamp. Considered the most attractive stamp series ever produced by the USPS.
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/fremont1.htm | 1997 Legends of the West. Fremont and Kit Carson are featured on the Legends of the West stamp sheet.
http://www.hessdesignworks.com/Legends.html | 1998 Transmississippi Reissue. The original Trans-Mississippi stamps in the series were to be a two color but the need for script in the Spanish-American war prevented this. In 1998 the USPS reissued the stamps with the intended two color printing.
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/fremont3.htm | Fremont District-Seattle, WA "Center of the Universe" http://www.superpages.com/cities/mtg/93621/ | Fremont, North Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont,_North_Carolina | Fremont, Virginia
http://www.roadsidethoughts.com/15/c15_1273300.htm | Fremont, Alabama
http://www.roadsidethoughts.com/02/c02_3207500.htm | Fremont, Iowa
http://www.city-data.com/city/Fremont-Iowa.html | Fremont, Utah
http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Fremont-Utah.cfm | Fremont, New York
http://www.city-data.com/city/Fremont-New-York.html | Fremont, Ohio Fremont, Ohio's official web-site.
http://www.fremontohio.org/ | | Fremont, California Fremont, California's official web-site.
http://www.ci.fremont.ca.us/ |
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