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Camp Kearny was named for General 

 Stephen W. Kearny, a lieutenant in the 

 War of 1812 and a prominent figure in 

 the Mexican War. In 1846 he became a 

 brigadier general and was given com- 

 mand of the Army of the West, with 

 which he conquered New Mexico. He 

 then entered California, with instructions 

 from the Secretary of War to set up a 

 civil government. Later he was ordered 

 to Mexico, in 1848 was appointed Gov- 

 ernor of Vera Cruz, and subsequently of 

 Mexico City, where he contracted a fever 

 from which he died after his return to 

 the States. 



CAMP FREMONT 



Camp Fremont is situated at Menlo 

 Park, 33 miles from San Francisco, on 

 the Southern Pacific Railway's coast line. 

 It was intended for the use of National 

 Guardsmen of Washington, Oregon, Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, and Wyoming, but before its 

 completion difficulties arose with the local 

 authorities as to the kind of sewerage sys- 

 tem to be installed. The controversy de- 

 layed the work of construction, necessi- 

 tating the distribution among other camps 

 of the Guardsmen originally allotted to 

 this mobilization center. Now practically 

 completed, there are no Guardsmen to oc- 

 cupy the camp. It is being utilized, there- 

 fore, to house artillery, cavalry, and in- 

 fantry detacbments of the Regular Army. 



Menlo Park is a district of beautiful 

 residences and grounds ; one mile east is 

 Palo Alto, the station nearest to Leland 

 Stanford L'niversity, while to the south 

 runs the lovely Santa Clara Valley. 



The average annual temperature is 58 

 degrees, and the variation from this 

 throughout the year is slight. The San 

 Francisco region has sunshine 283 days 

 of the year and an average of 141 cloud- 

 less days. 



Camp Fremont honors a name noted in 

 the spectacular, romantic days of early 

 California and the West. John Charles 

 Fremont, an American, son of a French 

 father, was distinguished as a soldier, ex- 

 plorer, and political leader. His career 

 as an explorer began about 1837, when 

 he took part in railway survevs in Geor- 

 gia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. His 

 next survey took him farther west and 

 secured him an appointment as second 



lieutenant in the Topographical Corps, 

 U. S. A. 



In 1842, with 21 men, he made his first 

 expedition to the far West, Fremont 

 Peak, of the Wind River Range, receiv- 

 ing its name in that year. The following 

 year he commanded a second expedition, 

 with the object of supplementing the 

 work of Commander Wilkes on the Pa- 

 cific coast. Fremont's report, published 

 in 1844, created a sensation. His third 

 expedition became of vital importance in 

 the acquisition of California. Upon the 

 refusal of the Mexican officials to allow 

 him to continue his exploration, he forti- 

 fied his party near Monterey, thus taking 

 the first step of the Mexican War in Cali- 

 fornia. When the settlers of the turbu- 

 lent Sacramento Valley replied to Mexi- 

 can threats of expulsion by the capture 

 of Sonoma and by hoisting the "Bear 

 Flag," Captain Fremont took command, 

 creating an American military occupation. 

 . His part in the following events was 

 complicated, and after the war he re- 

 signed from the service, feeling that he 

 had been deeply wronged. He led a 

 fourth and a fifth expedition to the Pa- 

 cific, neither of which yielded important 

 results. He was appointed a major gen- 

 eral at the outbreak of the Civil War and 

 resigned from service for the second 

 time in 1864. 



His devotion to the project of a Pacific 

 railway involved him in financial ruin 

 during the panic of 1873. From 1878 to 

 1882 he was Governor of Arizona. In 

 1890, shortly before his death, he was re- 

 appointed a major general on the retired 

 list. Fremont River, Fremont Pass, and 

 the town of Fremont, Ohio, all commem- 

 orate his name. 



PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM 



The National Geographic Society has 

 contributed a subscription to the Na- 

 tional Geographic Magazine to every 

 Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus 

 reading-room and every Camp Library 

 (upzvards of 1,000 copies) in each of the 

 National Army Cantonmoits, National 

 Guard Camps, Regular Army Mobiliza- 

 tion Camps, Aviation Camps, Embarka- 

 tion Camps, Naval Camps and Training 

 Statio)is throughout the United States. 



