How Long to Read The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

How Long Does it Take to Read The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy?

It takes the average reader 13 hours and 57 minutes to read The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by Gideon Welles

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Description

Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned actions that gave the Union badly needed victories in the war’s early days, and oversaw a blockade that weakened the South’s economy. Perhaps the hardest-working member of the cabinet, Welles still found time to keep a detailed diary that has become one of the key documents for understanding the inner workings of the Lincoln administration. In this new edition, William E. and Erica L. Gienapp have restored Welles’s original observations, gleaned from the manuscript diaries at the Library of Congress and freed from his many later revisions, so that the reader can experience what he wrote in the moment. With his vitriolic pen, Welles captures the bitter disputes over strategy and war aims, lacerates colleagues from Secretary of State William H. Seward to General-in-Chief Henry Halleck, and condemns the actions of the self-serving southern elite he sees as responsible for the war. He can just as easily wax eloquent about the Navy's wartime achievements, extoll the virtues of Lincoln, or drop in a tidbit of Washington gossip. Carefully edited and extensively annotated, this edition contains a wealth of supplementary material. The several appendixes include short biographies of the members of Lincoln’s cabinet, the retrospective Welles wrote after leaving office covering the period missing from the diary proper, and important letters regarding naval matters and international law.

How long is The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy?

The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by Gideon Welles is 824 pages long, and a total of 209,296 words.

This makes it 278% the length of the average book. It also has 256% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 19 hours and 3 minutes to read The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy aloud.

What Reading Level is The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy?

The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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