800. GIDEON WELLES (1802-1878) Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy who proposed the blockade of Southern ports and the construction of an ironclad fleet. Nice partly-printed D.S. 1p. folio, Washington, Oct. 5, 1865, an honorable discharge for a Civil War soldier from the Navy Department. Signed at bottom right, with a handsome vignette of a schooner at top. Folds, mounted, overall very good. $100-150