Tapping Into Communications Telegraph Line During Civil War

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted July 5, 2008

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Critical troop positioning and planned movements during the Civil War were communicated via telegraph lines. Here you see opposing troops "tapping" into a telegraph circuit so that they will provide war-planning secrets to their leaders.

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