Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fremont” in chapter 6, page 344 of Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1.:
...ns until the 17th without being molested by the enemy, and although his dangerous situation was the theme of common conversation in St. Louis and throughout the Union.
After many days of hesitancy, Fremont became at last convinced that something must be done to extricate Mulligan, but the measures adopted by him could not prevent the disaster, which he still persisted in not foreseeing.
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