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General catalogue of the officers and students : with historical sketches of the founder, Henry Wells, and the Hon. Edwin Barber Morgan, its principal benefactor, of Wells College, Aurora, N.Y. 1868-1894

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    Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison), 1811-1883. Letter to Gideon Welles, 1802-1878

    Manuscripts

    Letters, manuscripts (including Welles' 1846-1849 diaries), documents and ephemera covering Welles' career as a naval administrator: Chief of Bureau of Provision & Clothing for the Navy, 1846-1849; Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1869 (requests for appointments, purchase of government vessels by George D. Morgan); criticism of Welles's successor, George Maxwell Robeson, and Robeson's assistant David Dixon Porter. Naval operations during the Civil War, including blockades, letters of marque, and the capture of New Orleans in April, 1862; Welles' views on Reconstruction politics; Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson. Much of the correspondence is written to Welles' son, Edgar T. Welles.

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