. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . h Street. It was erected about 1820 and was torn down in1879 to make way for the new State, War, and Navy Building. Thetwo windows, one on each side of the Maltese cross, aflForded an out-look on Pennsylvania Avenue from the room occupied by the cipher-operators during the Civil War. Next to the right-band windowstood Major Eckerts desk, at which Mr. Lincoln almost alwayssat when at the Telegraph Office and on which he wrote the firstdraft of the Emancipation Proclamation. He
. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . h Street. It was erected about 1820 and was torn down in1879 to make way for the new State, War, and Navy Building. Thetwo windows, one on each side of the Maltese cross, aflForded an out-look on Pennsylvania Avenue from the room occupied by the cipher-operators during the Civil War. Next to the right-band windowstood Major Eckerts desk, at which Mr. Lincoln almost alwayssat when at the Telegraph Office and on which he wrote the firstdraft of the Emancipation Proclamation. He spent more time inthis room during the last four years of his life than in any otherplace, the White House only excepted. The room to the left ofthe cipher-operators room was occupied by Major Johnson, custo-dian of military telegrams. The corner room was Secretary Stan-tons own office. The five windows under the portico to the rightof the cipher-operators room belonged to the old lilirary room ofthe War Department, in which was the Telegraph Office proper,where all Government messages were sent and received. 146. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION much to the country, and especially to four mil-lions of slaves, whose shackles were foreverloosed. The effect upon the public mind of the Emanci-pation Proclamation was, of course, not the samein all sections. By the radicals it was welcomedas one of the most important acts of the Presi-dent since the war began, while the conservativeelement feared it would prove ineffective in theNorth, and would lead to reprisals on the part ofthe enemy. In New York City the draft riots,culminating on July 15, 1863, had a curious re-lation to the color question, the wrath of themalcontents being to a large extent ventedupon the negro race, whose members were in anunreasoning way apparently held responsible inthe last analysis for the draft. In the border states the lines were sharplydrawn between the military and the loyalists onthe one hand, and Southern
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