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Cargando... Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During Civil War (edición 1995)por David Homer Bates (Autor), James A. Rawley (Introducción)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In general, an interesting book about the use of the telegraph by Lincoln. A major part of the book involves the development of the telegraph. There is also a lot of very (very) interesting information about the use of codes in the transmission of war correspondence. This is the source of the (possible) myth that Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation in the telegraph office. There is some evidence against that, but the first person witness is fairly convincing that at least some of the document was written there. If you want to learn more about the use of the telegraph during the war, read this instead of the more recent 'Lincoln's t-mails'. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
As the Civil War raged, President Abraham Lincoln spent many hours in the War Department's telegraph office, where he received all his telegrams. Morning, noon, and night Lincoln would visit the small office to receive the latest news from the armies at the front. The place was a refuge for the president, who waited for incoming dispatches and talked while they were being deciphered. David Homer Bates, one of the first military telegraphers, recollects those presidential visits during times of crisis. Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, originally published in 1907, shows history in the making and personalities at their most unguarded: Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Andrew Carnegie, General George McClellan, and many 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. Lincoln wrote the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation at the telegraph office, and from there the news of his assassination was relayed. Wartime human-interest anecdotes, the wonder of the new technology, the unraveling of ciphers and codes, conspiracies and rumors, a heightened sense of onrushing events, the tragedy of Good Friday 1865--all are conveyed in this classic of Lincolniana. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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There is a fair amount in the book about the development of the telegraph and codes (or as they were called then cyphers). I would rather have had more about Lincoln but evidently the author was interested in what he know and liked as well as the actions of Lincoln who, by the way, he deeply respected.
The portrayal of Lincoln as a man and a president is extremely interesting. I wish the book had been longer and even more informative. This book is interesting and worth your time. ( )