I read this in Sherman's Memoirs: So on the field a thin insulated wire may be run on improvised stakes or from tree to tree for six or more miles in a couple...
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keeno2@...
Dec 24, 2006 6:15 pm
In a message dated 12/24/2006 10:30:02 AM Central Standard Time, banbruner@... writes: Does mean what it seems to mean? I can barely conceive of it....
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Carl Williams
carlw4514
Dec 26, 2006 1:42 pm
certainly in those days they were unable to get much voltage. I don't think a generator had been invented yet? Crude batteries, I believe, were used....
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Dec 26, 2006 2:12 pm
Ken and Carl, thank you for your response. I have known some ditty boppers in my time that if they could feel the dits and dahs on their tongue would have...
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Carl Williams
carlw4514
Dec 26, 2006 8:55 pm
The 'voltaic pile,' a type of battery, would seem to be what I have read powered these civil war telegraphs. However, I stand corrected in that electromagnetic...
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keeno2@...
Dec 26, 2006 9:55 pm
In a message dated 12/26/2006 8:15:45 AM Central Standard Time, banbruner@... writes: Did placing the bare wire of the broken line on a moist tongue...
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PvtUpScope@...
jxhnsxn
Dec 26, 2006 11:58 pm
Bill Completing the circuit.--- No, touching ones tongue onto a lose end would not complete the circuit. What they did was hold one loose end in one hand and ...
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Carl Williams
carlw4514
Dec 27, 2006 2:46 am
I was assuming you would be touching both ends of the cut line to the tongue [I guess one line in the hand is better]... no way you would have a true complete...
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Tony Gunter
tony_gunter
Dec 27, 2006 2:06 pm
... circuit. ... resistance ... Actually, I've had this conversation before with a telegraph expert, in reference to Civil War spying, and had to go look it up...
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Tony Gunter
tony_gunter
Dec 27, 2006 5:21 pm
... tongue. ... expert, in ... sure ... single ... Bugging a ... basically, ... here ... I also found this reference of reading a telegraph line with one's ...
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Dec 27, 2006 5:23 pm
... wrote: Actually, I've had this conversation before with a telegraph expert, in reference to Civil War spying, and had to go look it up to make sure what...
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Tony Gunter
tony_gunter
Dec 27, 2006 5:32 pm
... the ... feasible. ... one's ... was ... circuit. ... him ... http://www.insulators.com/books/mpet/chap06.htm#para119 Here's an 1881 instruction manual...
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GARY W KURTZ
shilohnick
Dec 27, 2006 8:50 pm
What important Civil War event occurred 112 years ago today?...
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ks
pbjdesigns
Dec 27, 2006 9:33 pm
112 years? Shiloh National Military Park was established on December 27, 1894. Is that the answer you seek? Pat ... From: GARY W KURTZ To:...
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GARY W KURTZ
shilohnick
Dec 27, 2006 9:36 pm
Yep, I thought it might be a bit harder to get than that --Nick ... From: ks<mailto:ks@...> To:...
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Tony Gunter
tony_gunter
Dec 27, 2006 10:24 pm
... Oops ... sorry, part of my message was cut off. This manual mentions using your tongue to test for direction of the ground....
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Andrew Turnier
turnierwa
Dec 29, 2006 1:13 am
Recently I visited Fort Granger in Franklin. The question I have what type of conservation has taken place. The reason why I ask is that it seems to have...
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lilsteve68@...
lilsteve68
Dec 29, 2006 1:38 am
As far as I know really no preservation has taken place but it part of the park there near it if I remember correct. I will ask around and see if I can get...
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Dec 31, 2006 7:45 am
Just wondering. It seems at first blush that the Battles of Peacchtree Creek amd the Battle of Atlanta were fought out of secquence. The dictum being, that...
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Carl Williams
carlw4514
Dec 31, 2006 12:56 pm
just guessing, but perhaps Intel was faulty on which the stronger/weaker?...
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James W. Durney
james2044
Dec 31, 2006 1:34 pm
... More often than not "the reason why" is bad luck. Poor intellgence always seems to play a part but bad luck seems to rule the battlefield. Who got lost,...
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keeno2@...
Dec 31, 2006 3:12 pm
So long as we're in the speculative phase, I'll throw in that Thomas' army presented the greater, more immediate threat. McP was still a ways off while Thomas...
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William H Keene
wh_keene
Dec 31, 2006 5:54 pm
The Army of the Cumberland was in the process of crossing the creek thus the intent was to be able to attack it while it was divided. The Army of the Tennessee...
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Dec 31, 2006 11:19 pm
... creek ... Actually the Army of the Cumberland was not in the process of crossing the creek. Thomas had rapidly moved them across the creek and quickly...
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keeno2@...
Jan 1, 2007 12:51 am
In a message dated 12/31/2006 5:22:57 PM Central Standard Time, banbruner@... writes: Thomas had rapidly moved them across the creek and quickly...
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Jan 1, 2007 1:15 am
Ken, this makes sense to me. Perhaps Thomas was just a bit faster on the uptake than Hood. Or perhaps there a military or tactical principle involved that I...
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keeno2@...
Jan 1, 2007 4:44 am
In a message dated 12/31/2006 7:19:27 PM Central Standard Time, banbruner@... writes: Or perhaps there a military or tactical principle involved that...
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Jan 1, 2007 6:35 am
"Better an army of deer with a lion for leader, than an army of lions with a deer for leader." Happy New Year Bill Bruner...
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Jfepperson@...
jfe13
Jan 1, 2007 6:58 am
In a message dated 1/1/2007 1:36:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, banbruner@... writes: "Better an army of deer with a lion for leader, than an army of...
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Bill Bruner
endeavorgot
Jan 1, 2007 7:13 am
... lions ... Wonderful! You precisely picked up on the the context of the proverb. Bill Bruner...
