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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War

by Tom Wheeler

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Lincoln, the Telegraph, and Wartime Command

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Lincoln, the Telegraph, and Wartime Command

Tom Wheeler examines the telegraph as a working instrument of Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War leadership. The book places a relatively new communications technology at the center of presidential decision-making, tracing how Lincoln used telegraphed messages to communicate with his generals. It also considers the meeting point between his established gifts as a writer and the compressed demands of this emerging medium, including the way he adapted his familiar rhetorical manner for military correspondence. Framed as a focused historical study, it offers a technology-and-leadership lens on the conduct of the war rather than a broad chronological history of the Civil War.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War presidency
  • Civil War history readers seeking a focused study of command and communication
  • Readers interested in the history of the telegraph and technology in government

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Abraham LincolnCivil War leadershipTelegraphyMilitary communicationPresidential decision-making

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Book overview

Abraham Lincoln's two great legacies to history—his extraordinary power as a writer and his leadership during the Civil War—come together in this close study of the President's use of the telegraph. Invented less than two decades before he entered office, the telegraph came into its own during the Civil War. In a jewel–box of historical writing, Wheeler captures Lincoln as he adapted his folksy rhetorical style to the telegraph, creating an intimate bond with his generals that would ultimately help win the war.
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