Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War
David Homer Bates (Author), James A. Rawley (Writer of introduction), Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University Libraries)
Shows history in the making and personalities at their most unguarded: Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Andrew Carnegie, General George McClellan, and others. The reader is with Lincoln at the scene of dramatic tidings: of the Northern disasters at Bull Run, of Meade's victory at Gettysburg, of Grant's capture of Richmond.
Print Book, English, 1995
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Century Co., Lincoln, New York, 1995
History
xxi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780803261259, 080326125X
32429649
Introduction
Organization of the military telegraph corps
The war department telegraph office
Cipher-codes and messages
Confederate cipher-codes and intercepted dispatches
In the first months of the war
McClellan's disagreements with the administration
Lincoln in touch with Army movements
Eckert, chief of the war department telegraph staff
The first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg and Vicksburg year
Lincoln's tender treatment of Rosecrans
A remarkable feat in railroad transportation
Lincoln in every-day humor
Lincoln's love for his children
A bogus proclamation
Grant's wilderness campaign
Lincoln under fire at Fort Stevens
Cables and signals
Lincoln's forebodings of defeat at the polls
Conspirators in Canada
The attempt to burn New York
Grant's orders for the removal of Thomas
The abortive peace conference at Hampton roads
Lincoln's last days
The assassination
Payne, the assassin
Lincoln'a manner contrasted with Stanton's
Originally published: New York : Century Co., 1907
"Bison books"--Preliminary page
Includes index