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Updated: June 2, 2025
Our commercial telegraph-lines will always supply for war enough skillful operators. The value of railways is also fully recognized in war quite as much as, if not more so than, in peace.
Man's mechanism stands at the center of the universe with telegraph-lines extending in every direction. It is a marvelous pilgrimage he is making through life while myriad influences stream in upon him.
Besides the regular observations, report is also made of casual phenomena lightning, auroras, time of first and last frosts, etc., etc. The history of the Signal Service Bureau and the establishment of these stations and telegraph-lines, bringing the whole country under the instant oversight of one intelligent observer, would, if it were briefly written, be full of points of dramatic interest.
The telegraph-lines were rebuilt, the stages re-established, the mails transported regularly, and protection given.
I have been traversing the country constantly on and adjacent to the mail- and telegraph-lines during the past four months, sending guards on the stages, and, when deemed necessary, mounted guards and patrols on all dangerous portions of the road through my district.
Our commercial telegraph-lines will always supply for war enough skillful operators. The value of railways is also fully recognized in war quite as much as, if not more so than, in peace.
Next morning one of the batteries was ordered to reconnoitre as far as the town pursuing a different route than that taken on the previous day. The commanding officer asked me to go along because of my knowledge of Arabic. The road followed the telegraph-lines, and part of the time that was the only way in which we could distinguish it from the surrounding country.
All over France are these bridges of iron, of splendid masonry, some decorated with statues, some dating back hundreds of years, but now with a span blown out or entirely destroyed and sprawling in the river. All of these material things motor-cars, stone bridges, railroad-tracks, telegraph-lines can be replaced. Money can restore them.
In the meantime the Department of Kansas was merged into the Department of the Missouri, placing under my command Missouri, the Indian Territory, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and all the country south of the Yellowstone River, and embracing all the overland mail-routes and telegraph-lines to the Pacific.
Every wave has tales to tell Of storms far out at sea. Our little station belongs to the advanced guard of this proposed line which is to encircle the coast, the whole work of establishing these stations and telegraph-lines having been, done by Sergeant G and his comrades.
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