Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . , when he left Atlanta in his famous -march THE CENTURYS AIIMIES AND ARMS 291 to the sea: for though he expected to, and did, live upon the country, henevertheless took the precaution to carry with him a wagon train containingtwentv days rations for his entire army. In the War of Secession the el
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . , when he left Atlanta in his famous -march THE CENTURYS AIIMIES AND ARMS 291 to the sea: for though he expected to, and did, live upon the country, henevertheless took the precaution to carry with him a wagon train containingtwentv days rations for his entire army. In the War of Secession the electric telegraph first appeared on thefield of battle. The telegraph train became a prominent feature of all ourarmies; and the days march was hardly ended before the electric wire, rap-idly established by an expert corps, connected the headquarters of the armywith those of each, army corps, division, and brigade. But it was not in itsemployment on the actual held of battle that the telegraph found its mostvaluable military use. It enabled generals, separated In hundreds of miles,to be in constant communication with each other, and rendered it possiblefor Grant to control from his headquarters hut at City Point the movementsof the armies of Sherman. Thomas, and Sheridan in combined operations,. SPENCEK CAKRIXE. which enabled each to perform, in harmony with the others, its part in themighty plan. It followed as naturally as day follows night that a shrewd and intelligent,people, engaged in a desperate struggle for self-preservation, would availthemselves of all means provided by military science tor carrying out thecontest in which they were engaged. Iron-clad vessels had been devised inboth England and France, but they were merely frigates designed on the oldlines ami partly covered with a sheathing of armor. With characteristicenergy and ingenuity the Americans, ignoring old traditions and seeking theshortest road to the fulfillment of a manifest want, produced simultaneously
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