Join us for an engaging look at Frémont’s Hundred Days, the brief but consequential period when General John C. Frémont led Union forces in Missouri. Wolk highlights Fremont’s major decisions, the controversies that followed, and the lasting impact this moment had on the state’s Civil War story.
Speaker: Gregory Wolk
Gregory Wolk is a retired civil trial lawyer and the author of Friend and Foe Alike: A Tour Guide to Missouri’s Civil War and John Frémont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri. He has written extensively about all facets of the Civil War in Missouri and is a regular contributor to Missouri Humanities Magazine. Wolk is the former executive director of Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation and is currently the executive director of the National US Grant Trail Association, based at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis.