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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2012 01:55 pm |
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HankC Member 
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I've wondered: how was Sherman's 'Christmas' message to Lincoln transmitted from Savannah? was there undersea telegraph? fast packet boats from station to station? wig-wag? something else? sometimes the logistics are amazingly complex and advanced, other times plodding and ancient...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2012 02:53 pm |
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Mark Member
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The dispatch is dated as follows: Savannah, Ga. Dec 22, 1864 Via Ft. Monroe Va. Dec 22 I strongly suspect it was packet boat to Ft. Monroe and then another boat from there to Washington. There was no other way to do it.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 1st, 2012 12:42 am |
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Joramy3 Member
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I have a web site on that subject, at http://www.lakesidepress.com/Savannah-CivilWar/sherman-telegram.html The telegram went by steamer Golden Gate to Fortress Monroe, VA. From there, it went by telegraph to the war office next to the white house, from where it was re-transcribed in handwriting, and delivered to Lincoln. Original documents are on the web site. If you have any further questions after perusing the web site, please let me know. Larry Martin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 1st, 2012 05:22 am |
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Hellcat Person 
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Um, I don't get something on that link. On the section of when the telegraph reached Lincoln it saysSherman wrote in his memoirs that: "This message actually reached him on Christmas-eve..." However, in his Civil War News review of Stanley Weintraub’s book General Sherman's Christmas, Carl Schenker Jr. writes: "[Weintraub] puts Sherman’s Christmas gift message into Lincoln’s hands on Christmas Eve, one day early according to the extant military telegram." Now to me Christmas-eve and Christmas Eve are the same thing, December 24th. Looking over it seems to be suggesting Sherman was saying the night of Christmas, which I'd call Christmas Day eve or Christmas Day night. Is that what Sherman was actually saying or was Christmas Eve also spelled Christmas-eve back in the 1860s?
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| Posted: Tue Oct 2nd, 2012 10:09 am |
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Joramy3 Member
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Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency. I should have quoted the entire comment by Schenker, to show that "Christmas Eve" statement in the book was an error, and that the telegram actually got to Lincoln on Christmas Day. I have revised the Sherman-to-Lincoln Telegram web site and it should be clear now. Larry
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