I am this day
sixty-three years old have attained my grand climacteric, a critical period in
man's career. Some admonitions remind me of the frailness of human existence
and of the feeble tenure I have on life. I cannot expect, at best, many returns
of this anniversary and perhaps shall never witness another.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 327
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