The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy: The Original Manuscript Edition

by Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles's 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned actions that gave the Union badly needed victories in the war's early days, and oversaw a blockade that weakened the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252038525
• ISBN13: 9780252038525
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 824 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"