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.
Introducing Lincoln in the Telegraph Office is James A. Rawley,
Carl Adolph Happold Professor Emeritus of history at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. His works include Turning Points of the Civil
War, also available as a Bison Book.
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