Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, 1862-1867. Artist: Unknown

---

Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, 1862-1867. Welles (1802-1878) oversaw a buildup in the strength of the Union Navy which enabled it to successfully enforce a blockade of the Confederacy's ports, one of the decisive factors in bringing about the Union's eventual victory in the Civil War. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.

---

Size: 3432px × 5111px
Location:
Photo credit: © The Print Collector/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: &, /, 19th, america, american, black, century, chair, civil, collector, concept, country, furniture, gideon, guy, location, male, man, men, monochrome, navy, nineteenth, people, politician, politics, portrait, print, republican, seated, secretary, states, statesman, union, united, unknown, usa, war, welles, white