Book Review: David Bates' "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office"

Abraham Lincoln's Personality: His Personal, Homely Side

“There were many angles in Lincoln’s character. That which he showed in the War Department's telegraph office was the personal, homely side as distinguished from the business, political, or literary side. ... ​

Lincoln working in the Telegraph Office

​"The cipher-operators saw him at close range, and in his most anxious hours, amid the excitement of great military movements, with their attendant horrors: the clash of arms, the carnage of the battle-field, the groans of the dying and the tears of loved ones.

​"We also met him in the calmer but no less trying hours of patient waiting for the slow development of wide-reaching plans for the preservation of the Union.”

"Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," David Homer Bates, 1907

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