Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails Quotes

“Half a dozen years later, the Census Report of 1852 featured a dozen pages heralding the expansion of the telegraph, including a map of all the existing telegraph lines. North of the Mason-Dixon Line it looked like a spider’s web. South of that demarcation, however, were only two threads, one running down the east coast, and the other down the Mississippi Valley.”
― Tom Wheeler, Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War

“On average it took 22 days for news to travel between New York City and Charleston; and 26 days to reach Savannah.”
― Tom Wheeler, Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War