According to historian Louis Masur, Abraham Lincoln was “upset” by Union General John Fremont’s decision on August 30, 1861 to announce from his headquarters in St. Louis the general emancipation of rebel-owned slaves in Missouri (p. 28). Yet, in his first letter to Fremont requesting changes in this proclamation, which he sent by special messenger from Washington […]
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Lincoln’s Fremont Problem
Posted by Matthew Pinsker Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & Diariesno comment
