John C. Fremont
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Army", "Fremont, John Charles", "Mathew Brady Studio"], "topic": ["Legislators", "Brass", "Mustaches", "Dress accessories", "Civil War army officer", "Governors", "Design", "Major General", "Weapons", "Swords", "Column", "Button", "Military and Intelligence", "Natural Resource Occupations", "Explorers", "Architecture", "Government", "Interior decoration", "Portraits", "Union army officer", "Facial Hair", "Costume", "Men", "Senators", "Politics", "Presidential Candidate", "Beards", "Officer"], "place": ["New York", "United States", "California", "North America", "Kings"], "online_media_type": ["Images"]}, "freetext": {"setName": [{"label": "See more items in", "content": "National Portrait Gallery Collection"}], "date": [{"label": "Date", "content": "1861"}], "identifier": [{"label": "Object number", "content": "NPG.81.M93"}], "notes": [{"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Savannah, Georgia"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "At the outset of the Civil War, President Lincoln appointed former explorer John C. Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont major general to command the Department of the West, headquartered in St. Louis. Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont assumed that post in July 1861, but his subsequent refusal to retract a proclamation to confiscate the property of rebel Missourians and free those they had enslaved cost him the president\u00e2\u0080\u0099s confidence and his western command. This episode made Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont a favorite among radical, antislavery Republicans, who pressured Lincoln to restore him to duty."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Assigned to a new command in Virginia in the spring of 1862, he was outmatched by Confederate General \u00e2\u0080\u009cStonewall\u00e2\u0080\u009d Jackson and later resigned his command rather than serve under General John Pope. Nominated by anti-Lincoln Republicans as their candidate for president in 1864, Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont withdrew from the contest when a committee of administration loyalists convinced him that his candidacy could open the door to a Democratic victory in November."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Savannah, Georgia"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "A principios de la guerra de Secesi\u00c3\u00b3n, el presidente Lincoln nombr\u00c3\u00b3 al antiguo explorador John C. Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont teniente general para que comandara el Departamento del Oeste, cuyos cuarteles generales se encontraban en St. Louis. Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont asumi\u00c3\u00b3 este cargo en julio de 1861, pero su posterior negativa a retractarse de una proclamaci\u00c3\u00b3n para confiscar las propiedades de los rebeldes de Missouri y liberar a aquellos a quienes hab\u00c3\u00adan esclavizado le cost\u00c3\u00b3 la confianza del presidente y su comando del oeste. Este incidente convirti\u00c3\u00b3 a Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont en el favorito de los republicanos radicales antiesclavistas, que presionaron a Lincoln para que volviera a incorporarlo al ej\u00c3\u00a9rcito."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Asignado a un nuevo comando en Virginia en la primavera de 1862, fue derrotado por el general confederado \u00e2\u0080\u009cStonewall\u00e2\u0080\u009d Jackson y, m\u00c3\u00a1s tarde, dimiti\u00c3\u00b3 de su puesto antes que servir bajo las \u00c3\u00b3rdenes del general John Pope. Nominado como candidato a presidente en 1864 por los republicanos opositores a Lincoln, Fr\u00c3\u00a9mont se retir\u00c3\u00b3 de la contienda cuando un comit\u00c3\u00a9 fiel al gobierno lo convenci\u00c3\u00b3 de que su candidatura podr\u00c3\u00ada abrir las puertas a una victoria democr\u00c3\u00a1tica en noviembre."}, {"label": "Collection Description", "content": "The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of \u00e2\u0080\u009cHuman Curiosities\u00e2\u0080\u009d at P. T. Barnum\u00e2\u0080\u0099s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States."}, {"label": "Collection Description", "content": "La Colecci\u00c3\u00b3n Frederick Hill Meserve contiene m\u00c3\u00a1s de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la \u00c3\u00a9poca de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotogr\u00c3\u00a1fico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colecci\u00c3\u00b3n incluye retratos de militares, pol\u00c3\u00adticos, diplom\u00c3\u00a1ticos y artistas. Tambi\u00c3\u00a9n contiene im\u00c3\u00a1genes de \u00e2\u0080\u009ccuriosidades humanas\u00e2\u0080\u009d exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. 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