A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln's Cabinet

The U.S. Civil War through the eyes of a key member of President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Gideon Welles, the Connecticut journalist-politician who served as Lincoln’s secretary of the navy, was not only an architect of Union victory but also a shrewd observer of people, issues, and events. Fortunately for posterity, he recorded many of his observations in his extensive diary.  A Connecticut Yankee in Lincoln’s Cabinet brings together 250 of the most important and interesting excerpts from