The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States, With an Exposition of Ancient and Modern Means of Communication, and of the Federal ... Cipher Systems, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

United States Military Telegraph Corps, whose services were so essential to the overthrow of the Rebellion, have been unkindly overlooked by the Federal Government and the liistorian; and the daily increasing indications that their noble work, performed in times and places of greatest danger, was surely passing into unmerited oblivion, on whose brink much of the data collected for this work were found, has alone impelled me to spend so much of my time as has been necessary to prepare this history. The idea is too generally accepted that all the credit for crushing the Rebellion belongs to the army. If any one shall read these volumes without realizing that Congress in confe Mng upon the army, composed as it was of as brave and patriotic men as ever lived, all the honors and rewards due for military gallantry and usefulness, did gross injustice to the members of the Telegraph Corps, then I have injured with faint praise a cause deserving better representation. Very many Southern operators have furnished interesting and important reminiscences of incidents which occurred within the Confederate fines. They form as much a part of the telegraphic war history as the operations of the Southern forces do of the military history of the Great Conflict; therefore, and because they are of themselves worth preserving, I have woven them into the general fabric of this work. To illustrate the importance of the telegraph, and give it its due setting ;to present it as it was, surrounded by all that pertains to war, it was essential to give a running account of the armed struggle itself.
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