Pontoon Battalion

Item DOC-6187

Description

Original Civil War telegraph, written in period ink and war dated.


U. S. Military Telegraph

February 7, 1864
By Telegraph from Chattanooga, TN
To Captain F. Duke
Pontoon


Sir, You will collect all the trestle material you have at the steamboat landing and forward them to me at this place at your earliest opportunity by order of P. O’Connell, Captain Commanding Pontoon Battalion.

J. W. Daniels


Lieutenant Newby, Send what teams you have to haul them. I will furnish the men to load and unload. Show them the best place to unload at the landing.

Captain Frank Duke, Commanding