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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A good move--military telegraphy. (search)
A good move--military telegraphy. --The Richmond correspondent of the New Orleans Delta says: While the Lincoln Administration is assiduously studying military æromantics under Prof. Lowe, and the Professor in conducing to his own amusement and preciosity by humbugging Lincoln, Seward and Scott with his ærial romances, the Confederate Government is engaged to much more practical purpose in organizing a system of military telegraphy, with the assistance of an experienced and energetic telegraphist, Mr. J. T. Colwell, late of Washington, and now Telegraphic Superintendent for Eastern Virginia and North Carolina, Mr Colwell is now having the wire made for this purpose in Richmond, and when this is flushed it is purposed to furnish a portion of it to every important division of the army, together with a field apparatus and operators to work them.--This kind of telegraph requires no posts. The wire, which is insulated, can be unwound from a sort of reel, and taken, as fast as a