Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy
        
        
        
        
                
                            
        
        
                    
                    
        
            Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy
        
        
        
        
                
                            
        
        
                    
                    
        
            Mr. Lincoln's Navy
        
        
        
        
                
                            
        
        
                    The insightful diary Gideon Wells kept during his tenure as secretary of the navy, 1861–1869 (longer than any of his predecessors), is an extraordinary record of the people and events of official Washington during the Lincoln and Johnson administrations.
The South Atlantic Quarterly. Gideon Welles on War, Politics and Reconstruction
Gideon Welles Lampooned by the Press