Subject: [WSFA] Re: A Transcontinental Telegraph, Hurrah!
From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:22:06 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Oct 24, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> October 24, 1861, 150 years ago today, the first transcontinental
> telegraph line was completed.
>
> The first message sent over this predecessor of the Internet was:
>
> TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

And for the rest of the Civil War, President Lincoln haunted the
Telegraph Office, reading dispatches as they came in and chatting
with the cipher-operators.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow