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Military Telegraphers Letter

Autograph Letter by a military telegrapher, 3p. octavo, Fort Monroe, Virginia, March 20, 1865, with cover addressed to a friend in Pennsylvania, and reads in part: "...I sent over one hundred messages and received a great many, the Northern line worked bad too. The circuit from here to Wilmington is 270 miles & battery at each end, so you may think now it is when the line is in bad condition. When it is clear I prefer it to any of the four we have. When we work to Washington the circuit is 384 miles & when City Point works to Washington it is about 470 miles. That is a long string is it not? Our City Point Line works well, but the Rebs get at it so often & tear it down Norfolk & Suffolk Line works tolerably well. Newport news line is most always working. We have a switch board by which we can throw any one line on to another, thereby saving much repeating or in fact all of it. We have good repeaters here & they are of some use on a very busy day our lines are all nicely arranged not a curve in them..." Some closed fold separations, else about VG.

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