Before and during the Civil War, abolitionist Jessie Benton Frémont, celebrity wife of legendary Pathfinder and almost-President John C.
Had absolutely no clue that California was in such a dangerously pivotal spot as secession and civil war loomed in the east.
"That is the power words have have.” <-- another typo?
California had the money - from gold and now increasingly from silver - to finance the whole war. Both sides knew it. And the South desperately wanted California as a slave state.
Thank you! Fixed it!
Had absolutely no clue that California was in such a dangerously pivotal spot as secession and civil war loomed in the east.
"That is the power words have have.” <-- another typo?
California had the money - from gold and now increasingly from silver - to finance the whole war. Both sides knew it. And the South desperately wanted California as a slave state.
Thank you! Fixed it!