Saturday, March 10, 2012

Information about communication problems during the Civil War?

i have an essay due on the civil war next week ; %26amp; i need extra information to go with how there were communication problems during the Civil War, and examples please?

this is what i have so far :

"A movement of troops over the river have taken place, and the trains from the city going east have been stopped. Telegraph lines and railroads were at the hands of the government."

help pleasee ? anything would be greatly appreciated ; best answer gets 5 stars %26amp; 10 pointss .Information about communication problems during the Civil War?
First, the communications quality varied greatly depending on who had control of the territory whatever message had to cross to get to the recipient. As an example, when Grant finally took Vicksburg he couldn't send a wire from there, because the telegraph lines would have been ripped down probably as fast as they were put up by roving bands of enemy cavalry. His wire to the government in Washington letting them know that Vicksburg had fallen had to travel via the Navy up the Mississippi to Memphis, then be put on the wire to Washington.



The problem of communication was acute also for any general on the field of battle. Almost without exception if a force cut, or even came close to cutting his lines of communication and supply it forced him to retreat.



Second the telegraph wire was easy to "tap". General J.E.B. Stuart had a telegraph specialist on staff so that he could read the Yankee messages. In one case he actually complained to the Yankee quartermaster of the "bad quality of the mules lately furnished which interfered seriously with our moving the captured wagons", after capturing a Yankee wagon train.Information about communication problems during the Civil War?
Medical communication was a problem

Many died on the battlefield but many also died because of poor conditions/poor medical knowledge
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