The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by Gideon Welles

Author:Gideon Welles [Welles, Gideon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252096433
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2014-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

1. The article in the Chronicle was entitled “Deficiency of Men in the Service.” In his letter, Welles claimed that the recent enrollment act passed by Congress was operating to discourage enlistments in the navy because these enlistments “were not permitted to be credited on the quotas of those communities from which they were drawn when the draft came to be enforced.” Washington Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1864.

2. In 1866 the Supreme Court ultimately decided that costs and damages would not be awarded if probable cause for seizure was established, as “neither an enemy, nor a neutral, acting the part of an enemy, can demand restitution of captured property on the sole ground of capture in neutral waters.” J. H. W. Verzijl, International Law in Historical Perspective: The Law of Neutrality, 61.

3. John Murray Forbes, along with Horace Greeley and Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, among others, had been calling for a postponement of the convention because they “thought some other candidate might prosecute the war more vigorously or press the attack on slavery with more conviction.” Abbott, Cotton & Capital, 107.

4. Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901) was an Episcopal bishop from Minnesota whose longtime advocacy of Native American rights had earned him international fame.

5. The moderate Democrat Origen S. Seymour (1804–81), nephew of Horatio Seymour, had been a congressman (1851–55) and superior court judge (1855–63). Furloughed soldiers were thought to have swelled the Republican margin of victory by 5,658 votes. Niven, Connecticut for the Union, 311.

6. William W. Eaton (1816–98) had been a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives on and off since 1847, in addition to holding clerk of courts and city attorney positions in Hartford in the 1850s. In 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat.

7. Hale had developed a particular animosity toward Assistant Secretary Fox, who was married to a daughter of his former foe Levi Woodbury. For a discussion of Hale’s relationship with the department, see Sewell, Hale and the Politics of Abolition, 206–7.

8. Henry Wise had been assistant chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography from July 1862 until June 1863. When John Dahlgren, then head of the bureau, was tapped to relieve Du Pont in the wake of the Charleston debacle, Wise became the acting chief. He and Dahlgren were engaged in an ongoing feud. Wise was also Assistant Secretary Fox’s best friend.

9. Edward Everett (1794–1865), the famous statesman, orator, and Harvard president, was Wise’s father-in-law, his daughter Charlotte having married Wise in 1850.

10. Retired rear admiral Silas Horton Stringham was currently head of the Boston Navy Yard.

11. John Lorimer Worden (1818–97), the commander of the Monitor at Hampton Roads, was at this time a supervisor of ironclad construction in New York.

12. Henry Wilson and Alexander Rice along with Senator Charles Sumner and others in the Massachusetts congressional delegation had been working on behalf of the Smiths. In 1865 a pamphlet would be published entitled United States versus Franklin W. Smith: Memorial of Senators and Representatives in Congress

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