John Frémont’s 100 DaysThe first book length study of John Frmont's time in Missouri written since the Civil War, revealing the story of the first enslaved person ever set free by military order of the United States and exploring six campaigns in the Trans Mississippi theatre. For one hundred days in 1861, John Frmont was the general in charge of the United States Armys Western Department, an enormous territory that included the state of Illinois and all the statesand