Uncover the tumultuous clash between John C. Fr mont and Abraham Lincoln as they navigated the politics of emancipation and the Civil War's shifting tides In 1856 the fledgling Republican party nominated as its first candidate for president John C. Fr mont, the dashing explorer of the American West known as the Pathfinder and a radical opponent of slavery. He lost, but when the Civil War broke out, Lincoln tapped him for high command,...
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