Gideon Welles Papers now available online

[Gene C]

An interesting article about the diaries of Gideon Welles from the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Assoc. winter 2020 addition.

"Welles began keeping an almost nightly journal of his experiences in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1862. Many years later, his son Edgar T. Welles published excerpts from his father’s diary in Atlantic Monthly. In 1911 Edgar released a three-volume edition that he claimed included only minor revisions. “A few strong expressions, purely personal and private, have been omitted,” Edgar wrote in the preface, “but the omission has always been indicated and the reader may have full confidence that the text of the diary has been in no way mutilated or revised.”[1] This assertion was patently untrue"

Here is the entire article
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/262986...w=fulltext