Major-General John Charles Frémont-Historical Signed Page (Civil War General.)

  

Historical 4.75x2.75 page signed J. Frémont in iron gall ink. On the verso is the signature of a possible Confederate general. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the U. In 1856 and the founder of the California Republican Party upon being nominated.

Frémont lost the election to Democrat James Buchanan. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, he was given command of the Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Frémont had successes during his brief tenure there, though he ran his department autocratically and made hasty decisions without consulting President Lincoln or Army headquarters.

He opposed slavery and issued an unauthorized emancipation edict, which led to him being relieved of his command for insubordination by Lincoln. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the army in 1864. He was nominated for president in 1864 by the Radical Democratic Party, a breakaway faction of abolitionist Republicans, but he withdrew before the election. After the Civil War, he lost much of his wealth in the unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and he lost more in the Panic of 1873.

Frémont served as Governor of the Arizona Territory from 1878 to 1881. After his resignation as governor, he retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.

Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best interests.

The keys to Frémont's character and personality, several historians argue, lie in his having been born "illegitimate" (to unwed parents) and in his drive for success, need for self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. His biographer Allan Nevins wrote that Frémont lived a dramatic life of remarkable successes and dismal failures. Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.