Gideon Welles Summary

Excerpt from Diary of Gideon Welles by Gideon Welles Excerpt from Diary of Gideon Welles Covering events from April 1865; first published in 1911 A Cabinet member recalls the day President Lincoln di... Read more

Gideon Welles (1802-1878), a member of Lincoln's Cabinet, is known especially for the diary he kept throughout the Civil War period.Gideon Welles was born at Glastonbury, Conn. He was educated at the ... Read more