GDG- Beadlslee's at Gettysburg?
jack
jlawrence at kc.rr.com
Sat May 26 09:17:41 CDT 2007
Topic: AoP Sigs and Tel at G'bg (Tom R. Jack L. Tom G. DBiggs)
Attached is an excerpt from a psot esteemed member David Powell sent, in a reference to Beardlsees.
The addfress is http://www.civilwarsignal.org/chickamauga.htm. This states that the magneto devices weerre in use at Gettysburg.
On the field. While this Chickamaugua site is not clear, it apperas to be from Willard.
It looks like there is more than a single facte to this story.
Regards,
Jack
"The American Telegraph Company had just lost their man in the Department of the Cumberland in all but fact.
They acted to suppress the role of the Signal Corps in the battle of Chickamauga. This following the great
success at Gettysburg where the field telegraph was on the field of battle while the Morse telegraph arrived
(except for the woman at the Gettysburg office!) a day after the battle."
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