Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 548
is body, the army; these nerves arethe methods of communication devised and em-ployed by that arm of the service known as theSignal Corps. The cavalry has always been the eyes and earsof an army. A screen of men on horseback cantravel far in advance of a marching army, and,by their great ability to… … LAYING A BUZZER WIRE FROM A HAND-REEL, AT A GALLOP. things of vital importance to the general in com-mand. The problem has always been to get theinformation back in time to be of service. In the time of the Civil War, the telegraph wasused largely, but only where a line could be putup with…
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