Gideon Welles : Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.
A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1974.
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Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS; 1 A ROVING DISPOSITION; 2 GENTLEMAN-EDITOR (1825-1828); 3 APPRENTICESHIP IN POLITICS; 4 REWARDS FOR THE FAITHFUL; 5 ASSIGNMENT IN WASHINGTON; 6 CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE; 7 STRUGGLE FOR ASCENDANCY; 8 LOCO-FOCO; 9 NILES, WELLES AND CO.; 10 A PERSISTENT SUITOR; 11 HARD TIMES; 12 LOW EBB; 13 MUTUAL FEARS; 14 INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT; 15 FREE SOIL AND FRÉMONT; 16 CHICAGO: 1860; 17 NEW ENGLAND'S REPRESENTATIVE MAN; 18 CONFLICT; 19 THE EXECUTIVE TOUCH; 20 TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS; 21 NEPTUNE AND MARS; 22 CONFUSION OF PURPOSES; 23 MONITOR MANIA; 24 A BLUNTED TRIDENT; 25 ON THE DEFENSIVE.
- 26 SUFFRAGE IS CRUCIAL27 THE ISSUE IS WITH HIM; 28 THE MADNESS OF THE HOUR; 29 DRAMA AND MELODRAMA; 30 OLD AND FULL OF DAYS; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX I; INDEX.