Col. John C. Fremont, Republican Candidate for the President of the United States Frame Style:Ebony Frame A press photograph from the

A press photograph from the opening weeks of the Peninsula Campaign

when Danforth carried the Democratic banner against Theodore Roosevelt — a race lost by a narrow margin

A portrait of the general who became president

Manifest Destiny's confidence here meets its private cost

The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one

Col. John C. Fremont, Republican Candidate for the President of the United States Frame Style:Ebony Frame A press photograph from theCol. John C. Fremont, Republican Candidate for the President of the United States the Pathfinder rendered as standard bearer, his 1856 campaign portrait carrying the new party's first presidential gamble against the slave power, all explorer's bearing and free soil conviction. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the