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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Remarks on waste in the Navy Department under George Maxwell Robeson with Aaron Harrison Cragin as chairman of the Navy committee as evidenced in the Secor claims and the building of naval vessels]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Preliminary drafts of Report of the Secretary of Navy]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. Letter to [George M. (George Maxwell) Robeson, 1829-1897: a letter for publication in the Hartford Times and Harford Courier]
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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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Woodhull, M. (Maxwell) Letter to Gideon Welles, 1802-1878
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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.
WE 422
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Remarks on the difficulty of enforcing the blockade and its violation by British vessels]
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WE 410
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Remarks concerning personnel in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing for the Navy]
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