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Jun 27, 2024 · Gideon Welles (born July 1, 1802, Glastonbury, Conn., U.S.—died Feb. 11, 1878, Hartford, Conn.) was the U.S. secretary of the navy under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Born into a wealthy family, Welles was educated at private schools.
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Jun 17, 2024 · GIDEON WELLES. Welles’ diary is the most comprehensive of the three. It is also the most frequently published, with the latest edition, a beautiful volume with lavish annotations by William E. and Erica L. Gienapp, titled The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, published in 2014 by the University of ...
6 days ago · Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 1, 1866. We have intelligence that Valparaiso has been bombarded by the Spaniards. A brutal and semi-barbarous proceeding on the part of Spain. In Cabinet the President brought forward the subject of Reconstruction as now before Congress in the report of the Committee of Fifteen.
2 days ago · But there is a malevolent Lincoln as well, and to many Southerners from the time of the Civil War and to some conservative critics today, Lincoln is the wicked slayer of liberty and states’ rights and the father of the all-controlling national state. Lincoln’s reputation began to grow while he was still alive.
Jun 29, 2024 · Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, May 12, 1866. Moore, the President's Private Secretary, came to me on Wednesday, the 9th, by request of the President, who desired him to consult with me respecting orders recently issued to Captain S. P. Lee to take command at Mare Island Navy Yard.
Jun 11, 2024 · Gideon Welles, alert to all of the rising tensions in the Deep South, recognized how vulnerable the shipyard was to capture. Now that a blockade had been proclaimed of the Southern coastline, he needed all of the ships and resources found at Gosport Navy Yard to enforce it.
Jun 27, 2024 · Gideon Welles. While the Federal armies actually stamped out Confederate land resistance, the increasingly effective Federal naval effort must not be overlooked. If Union sea power did not win the war, it enabled the war to be won.
