Manuscripts
Lincoln's Radical Reconstruction typescript draft
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Preliminary draft of an article, afterwards enlarged and published in the Galaxy (1872) under the title: Lincoln and Johnson: Their plan of reconstruction and the resumption of national authority]
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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