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Gideon Welles Lincoln s Secretary of the Navy
Author | : John Niven |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195016932 |
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A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.
Diary of Gideon Welles
Author | : Gideon Welles |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2020-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783846052648 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles Lincoln s Secretary of the Navy
Author | : Gideon Welles |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 881 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252096433 |
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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 South’s economy. Perhaps the hardest-working member of the cabinet, Welles still found time to keep a detailed diary that has become one of the key documents for understanding the inner workings of the Lincoln administration. In this new edition, William E. and Erica L. Gienapp have restored Welles’s original observations, gleaned from the manuscript diaries at the Library of Congress and freed from his many later revisions, so that the reader can experience what he wrote in the moment. With his vitriolic pen, Welles captures the bitter disputes over strategy and war aims, lacerates colleagues from Secretary of State William H. Seward to General-in-Chief Henry Halleck, and condemns the actions of the self-serving southern elite he sees as responsible for the war. He just as easily waxes eloquent about the Navy's wartime achievements, extols the virtues of Lincoln, and drops in a tidbit of Washington gossip. Carefully edited and extensively annotated, this edition contains a wealth of supplementary material. The appendixes include short biographies of the members of Lincoln’s cabinet, the retrospective Welles wrote after leaving office covering the period missing from the diary proper, and important letters regarding naval matters and international law.
Diary of Gideon Welles Volumes I II Expanded
Author | : Gideon Welles |
Publsiher | : BIG BYTE BOOKS |
Total Pages | : 1153 |
Release | : 2014-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Abraham Lincoln brought together one of the most remarkable Cabinet's in presidential history. Among them was Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and his successor, Andrew Johnson. Welles describes his role and that of many other prominent men of his day in this fascinating chronicle of the American Civil War and its aftermath. You'll get an inside view of the machinations within and around Lincoln's administration, along with personal anecdotes. Welles brilliantly took a Navy Department in disarray and forged it into a formidable instrument of Union power. He was instrumental in helping to win the war. Long used as a primary source for Lincoln scholars, you can now read Gideon Welles wonderful diaries on your Kindle, well-formatted for a superior reading experience. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Gideon Welles Lincoln s Navy Department
Author | : Richard Sedgewick West |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002687468 |
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Lincoln and His Admirals
Author | : Craig L. Symonds |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2008-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199718719 |
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Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians until now, revealing how he managed the men who ran the naval side of the Civil War, and how the activities of the Union Navy ultimately affected the course of history. Beginning with a gripping account of the attempt to re-supply Fort Sumter--a comedy of errors that shows all too clearly the fledgling president's inexperience--Symonds traces Lincoln's steady growth as a wartime commander-in-chief. Absent a Secretary of Defense, he would eventually become de facto commander of joint operations along the coast and on the rivers. That involved dealing with the men who ran the Navy: the loyal but often cranky Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, the quiet and reliable David G. Farragut, the flamboyant and unpredictable Charles Wilkes, the ambitious ordnance expert John Dahlgren, the well-connected Samuel Phillips Lee, and the self-promoting and gregarious David Dixon Porter. Lincoln was remarkably patient; he often postponed critical decisions until the momentum of events made the consequences of those decisions evident. But Symonds also shows that Lincoln could act decisively. Disappointed by the lethargy of his senior naval officers on the scene, he stepped in and personally directed an amphibious assault on the Virginia coast, a successful operation that led to the capture of Norfolk. The man who knew "but little of ships" had transformed himself into one of the greatest naval strategists of his age. Co-winner of the 2009 Lincoln Prize Winner of the 2009 Barondess/Lincoln Prize by the Civil War Round Table of New York John Lyman Award of the North American Society for Oceanic History Daniel and Marilyn Laney Prize by the Austin Civil War Round Table Nevins-Freeman Prize of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago
Senate documents
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB11368825 |
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Chester s Complete Trotting and Pacing Record Containing Summaries of All Races Trotted Or Paced in the United States Or Canada from the Earliest Dates to the Close of 1883
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1106 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Harness racing |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4501326 |
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