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Fall Asleep as a Telegraph Messenger Delivering Urgent News During the American Civil War
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Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian Step into a small American town during the Civil War and experience the quiet life of a telegraph messenger carrying urgent messages between railway stations, military headquarters, newspaper offices, and anxious families. Your days are spent beneath telegraph wires, crossing muddy streets in worn boots, listening to the steady clicking of Morse code, and delivering envelopes whose contents you may never know. Some contain routine orders or railway instructions. Others bring relief, uncertainty, or news that will change a family forever. While electricity carries information across vast distances in moments,…