. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . ONE OF GRANTS FIELD-TELEGRAPH STATIONS IN 1864 This photograph, taken at Wilcox Landing, near City Point, gives an excellent idea of the difficulties underwhich telegraphing was done at the front or on the march. With a tent-fly for shelter and a hard-tack boxfor a table, the resourceful operator mounted his relay, tested his wire, and brought the commanding gen-eral into direct communication with separated brigades or divisions. The U. S. Military Telegraph
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . ONE OF GRANTS FIELD-TELEGRAPH STATIONS IN 1864 This photograph, taken at Wilcox Landing, near City Point, gives an excellent idea of the difficulties underwhich telegraphing was done at the front or on the march. With a tent-fly for shelter and a hard-tack boxfor a table, the resourceful operator mounted his relay, tested his wire, and brought the commanding gen-eral into direct communication with separated brigades or divisions. The U. S. Military Telegraph Corps,through its Superintendent of Construction, Dennis Doren, kept Meade and both wings of his army incommunication from the crossing of the Rapidan in May, 1864, till the siege of Petersburg. Over this field-line Grant received daily reports from four separate armies, numbering a quarter of a million men, and re-plied with daily directions for their operations over an area of seven hundred and fifty thousand squaremiles. Though every corps of Meades army moved daily, Doren kept them in touch with field-line was
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