Mick cleary telegraph biography of abraham lincoln
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President Abraham Lincoln became the first “wired president” by embracing the original electronic messaging technology—the telegraph.
Mick cleary telegraph biography of abraham lincoln
The 16th president may be remembered for his soaring oratory that stirred the Union, but the nearly 1,000 bite-sized telegrams that he wrote during his presidency helped win the Civil War by projecting presidential power in unprecedented fashion.
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The federal government had been slow to adopt the telegraph after Samuel Morse’s first successful test message in 1844.
Prior to the Civil War, federal employees who had to send a telegram from the nation’s capital needed to wait in line with the rest of the public at the city’s central telegraph office. After the war’s outbreak, the newly created U.S.
Military Telegraph Corps undertook the dangerous work of laying more than 15,000 miles of telegraph wire across battlefields that transmitted news nearly instantaneously from the front lines to a telegraph office that had b