Diary of Gideon Welles Volume III: Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson

Of course in the Andrew Johnson drama the spectacular act is the impeachment. Americans who so lately had been holding their breath as they watched the great strugglewaged by Grant and Sherman against Robert E. Lee now had to watch with more painful feelings the assault of Benjamin F. Butler and Thaddeus Stevens against the President of the United States. --John T. Morse Jr. in the Introduction 1909Diary of Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson Vol. III offers the view and experiences of Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War of the Abraham Lincoln administration and of the Andrew Johnson administration that followed. This volume covers the period of January 11867 to June 6 1869.It was a lifelong custom of Gideon Welles to keep a diary including during his years in public office. By 1909 his diaries edited by Welless son Edgar were published.