Civil War or
The Battle of Nashville
A startling new technology bursts onto the scene, destroying time and distance, laying the groundwork for vast cross-continental business empires, and even changing the very nature of how war, government, and language itself are conducted. The story of the Internet revolution? Perhaps, but it is also the story of the telegraph in the mid 19th century, and as Commander in Chief of Union forces Abraham Lincoln relied extensively on the newly developed "t-mail" to lead his armies to victory.
Much like the current generation of high-tech moguls who have been known to send e-mails at all hours of the night, the stories of Lincoln spending late nights at the war room telegraph office answering his t-mail messages are well documented by historians. In his book Lincoln at Gettysburg, Northwestern University Professor Garry Wills pays special attention to Lincoln's fascination with t-mail.
