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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
ration. At that time they consisted of William H. Seward, Secretary of State; Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury; Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy; John P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior; James Speed, Attorney-General; and William Dennison, Postmaster-General. Mr. Chase, the formehad sworn to protect, and to the Government which had confided in their honor. and relied on their fidelity, to sustain it in conflict and peril. Report of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, December 4, 1865. Notwithstanding this condition of the naval service, the decree went forth, in the spring of 1861, that all the ptions which Mr. Lossing may consider essential in preparing his work. The usual courtesies, not interfering with the public service, may be extended to them. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. for no passes were issued from the War Department for many days after the assassination. We went down the Chesapeake to Fortress Monr