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8 de may. de 2024 · Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Three volume complete set. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Three volume complete set. Publication date. 1867 - 1869. Collection.
16 de may. de 2024 · In any case, with a stroke of his pen in place of a magic wand, Abraham Lincoln took on the role of marital “fairy godfather” by requesting that Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles “allow him the requisite leave of absence,” before adding “if the public service can safely endure it.”
15 de may. de 2024 · A few months later, John D. Hall wrote to Lincoln about his idea to lay cable across waterways to cut enemy obstructions lower than the keel of Union ironclads. He had originally written to Gideon Welles, who forwarded it to the Permanent Commission, and now impatiently was writing Lincoln.
Hace 4 días · Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles told Washington newsmen today that the navy has been given the responsibility for “closing all Rebel ports”. With only 70 plus seaworthy ships “the Navy has been given one of the most responsible roles in the war against secession,” said Welles.
Hace 1 día · Navy Secretary Gideon Welles wrote in his diary: “There is intense anxiety in relation to the Army of the Potomac. Great confidence is felt in Grant, but the immense slaughter of our brave men chills and sickens us all.
Hace 2 días · Posted on June 1, 2024. May was “Get Caught Reading” Month here at Emerging Civil War, and we caught some of our contributors with their noses in all sorts of books. Here is a quick recap of what titles our contributors were caught indulging in! Darren Rawlings was reading The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the ...
25 de may. de 2024 · He drafted his preliminary proclamation and read it to Secretary of State William Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, on July 13. Seward and Welles were at first speechless, then Seward referred to possible anarchy throughout the South and resulting foreign intervention; Welles apparently said nothing.
