The Intrepid American Journey of
ARTHUR. J L. FREMANTLE
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Featuring extracts from his diary
"Three Months in the Southern States April - June 1863 "
University of Nebraska Press reprint
© Roger Hughes. 1997
Arthur James Lyon Fremantle was born in London on 11th November 1835(1) into an old and well-to-do army family. His father, General Sir John William Fremantle CB commanded a battalion of the Coldstream Guards in Wellington’s Peninsula campaign(2). The Guards were themselves the oldest regiment in the modern army, formed in 1650, taking their name from the small English town of Coldstream near the Scottish border.
At the age of 26 Fremantle was assistant military secretary to Governor Coddrington in Gibraltar, himself a Coldstreamer, when the American Civil War started,(1)where. "In common with many of my countrymen, I felt very indifferent as to which side might win; But if I had any bias, my sympathies were rather in favor of the North, on account of the dislike an Englishman naturally feels at the idea of slavery." (Preface of the Diary)
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