. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . ys claimed that,so far as is known, the Military Telegraph Corpsthus furnished the third man who bled for hiscountrj^ in the Civil War, the two Massachusettsmen assaulted by the mob in Baltimore being thefirst and second. Mr. Carnegie has not yet ap-plied for a pension. When Carnegie reached Washington his firsttask was to establish a ferry to Alexandriaand to extend the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road track from the old depot in Washing-ton, along Maryland Avenue, to and across th
. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . ys claimed that,so far as is known, the Military Telegraph Corpsthus furnished the third man who bled for hiscountrj^ in the Civil War, the two Massachusettsmen assaulted by the mob in Baltimore being thefirst and second. Mr. Carnegie has not yet ap-plied for a pension. When Carnegie reached Washington his firsttask was to establish a ferry to Alexandriaand to extend the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road track from the old depot in Washing-ton, along Maryland Avenue, to and across thePotomac, so that locomotives and cars might becrossed for use in Virginia. Long Bridge, overthe Potomac, had to be rebuilt, and I recall thefact that under the direction of Carnegie andR. F. Morley,^ the railroad between Washingtonand Alexandria was completed in the remarkablyshort period of seven days. All hands, from * Morley, the first military railroad superintendent, and Strouse,the first military telegraph superintendent, literally worked them-selves to death. They both died before the year was out. 22. From a photograph by J. E. McClees. Philadelphia. Half-tone plate engraved by H. Davidson Andrew Carnegie in 1861 THE MILITARY TELEGRAPH CORPS Carnegie down, worked day and night to accom-plish the task set before them. At the same time the telegraph-lines were ex-tended, and communication by wire was openedwith outlying points. Telegraphers were in greatdemand, and were called for from all the leadingsystems, but chiefly from the Pennsylvania Rail-road, which was drained of many of its best offices were opened at Alexandria,Burkes Station, Fairfax, and other points. Carnegie remained at the capital until Novem-ber, continuing his work of organizing and per-fecting the military railroad and telegraph ser-vice, which by that time had been placed on sucha firm basis that he could be spared to return tohis former duties at Pittsburg, which post hadbecome of pri
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