. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ifying him that Burnside could of Thomass center, and had the telegraph wires not hold out longer than December i. Secre- laid to it. Sherman further says, speaking of tary Stanton telegraphed for Colonel Stager the telegraph on the battlefield, This is better to come to the key. Stager had retired, far than the signal flags and torches. Novem- but an instrument by his bed- ber 12, 1864, the line north from Atlanta was side awakened him. Stanton in severed as the last message passed, and Sher- Washington asked Stager, who man went out of the
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ifying him that Burnside could of Thomass center, and had the telegraph wires not hold out longer than December i. Secre- laid to it. Sherman further says, speaking of tary Stanton telegraphed for Colonel Stager the telegraph on the battlefield, This is better to come to the key. Stager had retired, far than the signal flags and torches. Novem- but an instrument by his bed- ber 12, 1864, the line north from Atlanta was side awakened him. Stanton in severed as the last message passed, and Sher- Washington asked Stager, who man went out of the region of the knowable, was in his bed-chamber in Cleve- so far as the telegraph and the North were concerned. He was accompanied by teleg- ? 1-4i--»- tapping the Southern wires, and who carried ^ \ ■^-,- ^ ^^^f^^^^^^~^--r- the cipher keys. The first use of the latter w^as on the march north from Savannah in ^__^,^, : exchanging dispatches with Schofield,. TAll-INf, A WIRE. TELEGRAPHING IN BATTLE. 789
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