Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
Mounted photograph, “U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps,” 11-1/2” x 10” on larger mount, negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positive by A. Gardner. From Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866]. Photograph showing members of the construction corps hanging a telegraph wire, likely in Virginia. The Corps was composed of about one hundred and fifty men, with a requisite number of wagons, pack mules, &c. A squad of these men was assigned to each Corps Headquarters, and was always in readiness to put up new lines or remove those already up at a moment's notice from the Commanding General. The Central Telegraph Office was in the War Department building, from which a network of wires radiated in every direction. President Lincoln frequently visited this office, and spent many an evening sitting at the instruments reading the reports as they came in and were recorded by the operators.
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