Excerpt from Diary of Gideon Welles, Vol. 2: Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson Governor Tod declines the Treasury Portfolio and Senator Fessenden is appointed The Sinking of the Alabama Cabinet Discussion of the Cotton Trade The Trial of General Dix for suspending two New York Papers The Kearsarge and the Alabama Ignorance in the War Office as to the Confederate Invasion of Maryland The Confederates near Washington Watching the Fighting from Fort Stevens Conversation with General Halleck Solicitor Whiting on Halleck's Incompetency The Attitude of the New York Evening Post towards the Navy Department after Agent Henderson's Removal - The Mistakes in the light-draf t Monitors Thomas G. Welles goes to the Front Greeley's Futile Inter ference - The Unofficial Peace Movements - Blair speaks his Mind Talk with Solicitor Whiting on Reconstruction Secretary Fessenden advertises a New Loan Newspaper Attack on the Navy Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.