. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . and on April 8, 1862, wefind that General Order 38 appoints him assist-ant quartermaster and military superintendentof telegraph-lines throughout the United of these orders placed all lines andemployees under the control of the Secretaryof War, and required commanding officersto furnish rations and give all necessary aid toColonel Stager and his assistants in the construc-tion, repair, and protection of military telegraph-lines. Stager from time to time appointed a
. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . and on April 8, 1862, wefind that General Order 38 appoints him assist-ant quartermaster and military superintendentof telegraph-lines throughout the United of these orders placed all lines andemployees under the control of the Secretaryof War, and required commanding officersto furnish rations and give all necessary aid toColonel Stager and his assistants in the construc-tion, repair, and protection of military telegraph-lines. Stager from time to time appointed assist-ants, who were also given commissions in theQuartermasters Department, to enable themto handle government property and Eckert was Colonel Stagers principalassistant, in immediate charge of telegraph oper-ations at Washington and in the Department ofthe Potomac. Colonel Stager visited Washing-ton occasionally, but resided in Cleveland, andafter October, 1863, he made that place his per- 32 o1-1 o M > £ r ^i 5^ ^ ?^/i n 1 fl 3- p r I a 1 ^ -^ J 5-( s 1 O £i ^ V »■ s ^ 3 p Tl! CO ^UC^ B W Q. V- -V- THE MILITARY TELEGRAPH CORPS manent headquarters and from that point di-rected the operations of the corps generally,giving particular attention to matters in theWest and Southwest, his principal assistant inthat section being Colonel Robert C. Clowry,who was stationed first at Little Rock and after-ward at St. Louis. On March 13, 1865, Clowrywas appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel formeritorious service and devoted applicationto duty, a characterization that all who knowhim consider well bestowed. For many yearsColonel Clowry was vice-president, and he is nowpresident, of the Western Union TelegraphCompany. There was no government telegraph organiza-tion before the Civil War. In the month ofApril, 1861, the American Telegraph Company,whose lines reached Washington from the North,extended its wires to the War Department, NavyYard, Arsenal, Chain-Bridge, and othe
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