it helped Lincoln because the south did not have a telegraph so lincoln could communicate to his generals to give them information
Because he could get over his point of view
The war office had a telegraph connection and Lincoln would go there to get reports about the war .
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Barack Obama will be sworn into office using Lincoln's bible.
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My dotty old uncle thinks he is President Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln is the first republican president of the U.S.
Before the Telephone became available for use long distance electronic communication consisted of The telegraph. To take advantage of this form of communication one had to take ones message to a telegraph office where a telegraph operator would send it using Morse code to a recipients post office where it would be deciphered and sent on as a telegram to the recipient While the Telegraph was a great step forward in communication it was certainly far more cumbersome and difficult to take advantage of then modern telephony. http://www.sendatelegram.com/telegrams_history.asp
The use of the telegraph greatly impacted the US Civil War. Probably more than earlier European wars, American field generals were able to communicate rapidly with each other and their political leaders in Washington DC and Richmond. The telegraph also allowed President Lincoln and President Jefferson to direct military operations even when these operations were hundreds of miles away.Also the press was able to send news stories about the war from their field positions to their newspapers in Northern or Southern cities.There is no way to determine the number of them sent & received.
Symbolism over substance. Every other president wanted to have his own identity. B. Hussein Obama has no identity so he chose Lincoln's.
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With modern technology, the telegraph is being confined to history.
President-elect Barack Obama will use the same Bible at his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used for his swearing in. Obama will be the first president since Lincoln to use that Bible, part of the collection of the Library of Congress. You mean 'has used' not 'will use' since he was inagurated on 20th January, that's 7 days ago. The Bible was the one used by Abraham Lincoln.