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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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AT THE TELEGRAPHERS- TEXT, YORKTOWN—MAY, 1862 These operators with their friends at. dinner look quite contented, with their coffee in tin cups, their hard-tack, and the bountifulappearing kettle at their feet. Yet their lot, as McClellans army advanced toward Richmond and later, was to be far from enviable.The telegraph service, writes General A. W. Greely, had neither definite personnel nor corps organization. It was simply acivilian bureau attached to the quartermasters department, in which a few of its favored members received commissions. The menwho performed the dangerous work in the field were mere employees—mostly underpaid and often treated with scant consideration.During the war there occurred in the line of duty more thin three hundred casualties among the operators—by disease, killed in battle,wounded, or made prisoners. Scores of these unfortunate victims left families dependent on charity, for the Government of theUnited States neither extended aid to their destitu

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