. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . er. 1861. General Buell promptly formed a brigadefrom the Army of the Ohio, put it in commaiul of .lames A. Garfield, Colonel of the Forty-second Ohio, with orders to drive GeneralMarshall from the State. This was accomplished Ijy the engagement at Middle Creek, .January 10, 1862. This photograph wastaken in 186i while the regiment was stationed at Plaquemine, Louisiana. General John Charles Fremont(1813-1890). Already a famousexplorer and scientist, the firstpresiden
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . er. 1861. General Buell promptly formed a brigadefrom the Army of the Ohio, put it in commaiul of .lames A. Garfield, Colonel of the Forty-second Ohio, with orders to drive GeneralMarshall from the State. This was accomplished Ijy the engagement at Middle Creek, .January 10, 1862. This photograph wastaken in 186i while the regiment was stationed at Plaquemine, Louisiana. General John Charles Fremont(1813-1890). Already a famousexplorer and scientist, the firstpresidential candidate of theRepublican party (in 1856),Fremont, at the outbreak of thewar, hastened home from Eu-rope to take command of thenewly created Western Depart-ment. He was born in Savan-nah, Georgia. Ilis father was aFrenchman and his mother aVirginian, and his tempera-ment was characterized by allthe impetuosity of such anancestry. Upon his arrival inSt. Louis he found things ingreat confusion. The Mis-sourians were divided in senti-ment and the home guards wereunwilling to reenhst. The Treasurer at St. Louis had. $300,000 in his hands, and Fre-mont called upon him for aportion of it to enable him toenlist men in the Federal Treasurer refused, butupon Fremonts threatening totake $100,000 without furtherceremony, the funds wereturned over. With about fourthousand troops, FremontseizedCairo, and by various demon-strations checked the aggres-sive attitude of the Confederateson the Kentucky and Tennes-see borders, and of the South-ern sympathizers in he was transferred outof the West in November, 1861,Fremont had raised an army offifty-six thousand men, and wasalready advancing upon an ex-pedition down the Mississippi. GENERAL FREMONT (ON THE RIGHT) ANDMRS. FREMONT lEngagfmruta of tl)? (fltittl Har Losses: Union 4 wounded. Confed. 2killed, 1 wounded. —Norfolk Mild Portsmouth, Va., occu-pied by Union forces under Gen. Wool. 11.— Confederate R.
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