Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy and Lincoln’s “Neptune”
Cover of a patriotic song dedicated to Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Currier & Ives, The Blockade on the “Connecticut Plan”, ca. 1862, lithograph, New York - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Depicted in the painting from left are Cabinet members Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, President Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, William H. Seward (seated), Montgomery Blair, Anna Ella Carroll (reincarnated), and Edward Bates.
