. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ers of the regulars weptlike boys when he left. Bumsides lines in the Fredericksburg cam-paign were the same as Popes had been inAugust, but were less extended and less ex-posed. Three of the operators were capturedat their posts, one of whom escaped by his witsand the others joined the considerable dele- phone, he would have succeeded. It will un-doubtedly be used with Morse telegraphyin future wars;i but the antiquated systemintroduced, and expected to be worked byofficers unfamiliar with electricity, resulted indisastrous failure. Had the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ers of the regulars weptlike boys when he left. Bumsides lines in the Fredericksburg cam-paign were the same as Popes had been inAugust, but were less extended and less ex-posed. Three of the operators were capturedat their posts, one of whom escaped by his witsand the others joined the considerable dele- phone, he would have succeeded. It will un-doubtedly be used with Morse telegraphyin future wars;i but the antiquated systemintroduced, and expected to be worked byofficers unfamiliar with electricity, resulted indisastrous failure. Had the telegraphic fieldnot been thus divided, and had GeneralHooker ordered the necessary lines, he wouldprobably have had better control of his forces,particularly of Sedgwicks corps. A swift glance southward and westward,without regard to chronological order, mayindicate the value of the telegraph in otherfields than the Potomac. Military lines were not required in NorthCarolina until 1863, when they connectedMorehead City, New Berne, Bachelors Creek,. A FIELD EXPEDIENT. gation of the corps already in captivity, wherethey suffered the usual horrors of Libby, BelleIsle, and Andersonville, and whence they com-municated by many ingenious devices withtheir friends. A brass button by the hands ofan exchanged prisoner would contain a cipherdispatch on tissue paper. A ring carved frombone and marked with a few Morse charac-ters told us of our captured comrades. From the beginning of the war there hadbeen some friction between the telegraph andthe signal corps. Eariy in 1861 the chief sig-nal officer assumed control of the telegraph inButlers department, from which he was im-mediately relieved by the vSecretary of 1863 he was again in the field with thirtycumbrous magneto machines, intended tooperate a dial telegraph. The system wasoperated by the signal officers in the Chan-cellorsville campaign, and, j^roving inefficient,it was turned over to the tclegra]jhers, who dis-carded the
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