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Heritage Books, Inc.. Paperback. new. new. Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the Fields in the Sixties - Charles A. Dana. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Charles Dana was forty-four years old and a respected journalist at Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Greeley objected to Dana’s pro-war sentiment and requested his resignation in 1862, at which time Dana was approached by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton with an offer to work for the War Department. Dana would serve the department in various capacities until he was appointed special commissioner, and sent to the front to investigate the paymasters of the Western Army in March, 1863. By April, Dana was operating out of the headquarters of General Grant and was reporting to the department about events at the front via an extensive network of couriers. This text is drawn mainly from these field reports and from Dana’s personal collection of papers and memoirs, enriched by numerous character sketches.… Read More