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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 21: administration of War Department (search)
ver may have been its exact nature, was a purely personal one, the principal effect of which was to emphasize the general's resentment towards the secretary for the part the latter had taken in the rejection of the agreement between Sherman and Johnston for the capitulation of Johnston's army, and for the re-establishment of peace east of the Mississippi. During the remaining weeks of his life in Washington, Dana assisted in all the business of the department incident to the arrest and trialJohnston's army, and for the re-establishment of peace east of the Mississippi. During the remaining weeks of his life in Washington, Dana assisted in all the business of the department incident to the arrest and trial of the President's assassins, and to the discharge of the great army of volunteers, but as this was mostly routine work which the permanent bureaus disposed of in the usual manner, he made but little record of the part which fell to his lot. While he worked on to the last with unabated industry, his task was really done, and his mind was henceforth naturally more concerned with his own future as affected by the offer he had received from Chicago to re-enter the profession of journalism. On J