President Lincoln issues orders formally relieving John C. Fremont from command. But getting the orders to Fremont would be another matter.

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President Lincoln issues orders formally relieving John C. Fremont from command. But getting the orders to Fremont would be another matter.
M. Jeff Thompson leads 3,000 secessionist Missourians in disrupting Federal operations and engaging in several skirmishes in southeastern Missouri.
John C. Fremont leaves St. Louis to lead his Army of the Southwest against the secessionist Missouri State Guards of Sterling Price.
Despite the recent loss of Lexington and the scattering of his forces, John C. Fremont reports that his troops are somehow “gathering around the enemy” in Missouri.
Sterling Price’s Missouri State Guards capture a Federal force and a key commercial town in their effort to expel the Federals from their state.
The pro-secessionist Missouri State Guards advance northward and threaten Lexington, a key commercial town on the Missouri River.