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Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 62.

Haupt, Photographs Illustrative of Operations In Construction And Transportation, As Used To Facilitate The Movements Of The Armies Of The Rappahannock, Of Virginia, And Of The Potomac, Including Experiments Made To Determine The Most Practical and Expeditious Modes To Be Resorted To In The Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction Of Roads And Bridges. No. 62–No. 62 shows mode of cutting telegraph wires and connecting the ends by means of coated or insulated wires, tarred rope, or other non-conduction substance, so that the point at which the connection is broken cannot be seen from the ground.

Handwritten note to back of Lehigh University copy: William Mackintosh, lineman in U. S. Military Telegraph Corps, 1862-65.

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