Lieut.-col. Fremantle

Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863 Lieut.-col. Fremantle

General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, GCMG, CB (November 1835 ? 25 September 1901) was a British soldier, a member of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards, and a notable British witness to the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Whilst holding the rank of "Captain and Lieutenant Colonel" he spent three months (from April 2 until July 16, 1863) in North America, traveling through parts of the Confederate States of America and the Union. Contrary to popular belief, Colonel Fremantle was not an official representative of the United Kingdom; instead, he was something of a "tourist".