Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States (1907) (14739829916)

Identifier: originalphotogra00eato (find matches)
Title: Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Eaton, Edward Bailey Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959. Martyrs on altar of civilization
Subjects: Eaton, Edward Bailey War photography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : E.B. Eaton
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AS MILITARY TELEGRAPH WAS BEING STRUNG
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TELEGRAPH stations in wag-ons were not uncommonsights to the soldiers betweenthe years of 1861 to 1865.Great responsibility rested upon theoperators who halted alongside theroad to send a message back to head-quarters that might change the wholecourse of events and defeat into vic-tory. The operators in the Civil Warstood by their posts like sentinels.The confidential communications ofcommanders and the movements ofthe morrow were intrusted with them,but not in a single instance is oneknown to have proven false to thattrust. It was part of the duty of thetelegraph service to take messagesfrom the scouts sent out to ascertainthe resources of the country, the ad-vantages of certain routes, and thegeneral lay of the land. Every clickof the instrument transmitted secretsupon which might depend the rise orfall of the nation. These field tele-graph wagons, drawn by horses, car-ried the instruments and batterieswhich had but recently been inventedby an American scientist, and bywhich an elec