Manuscripts
[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Recommendation to Congress for establishing a dock yard for the purposes of an iron navy]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Article on the question of naval yard]
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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]. [Record of principal events relating to the Norfolk Navy Yard disaster, Mar. 11-Apr. 19]
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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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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Diary
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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