GDG- Re: telegraph lines at Kennesaw Mountain

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Jack contributes:
 
> During this period use of the telegraph at the operational level was  very
> limited.  By the time of Kennesaw Mountain it was being used  extensively,
> especially by Thomas and his army.  Sherman depended  on him for rapid 
> comms.

I pulled out every book ever written on the Army of the Cumberland and none  
of them have anything about this.  So I went to the two George Thomas  
biographies.  Cleaves' had nothing by McKinney's "Education In Violence"  makes 
mention of how Sherman relied on Thomas' staff for the day to day running  of his 
army group - engineers, railroad repairs and much more - which is most  
interesting considering the bias he felt towards McPherson and his old command,  the 
Army of the Tennessee.
 
Sadly, there is no mention of telegraph lines between units of the army  
along the Kennesaw Lines.
 
If this can be sourced I would indeed be very interested in the  citation.
 
Greg Biggs 



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