One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
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One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
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