The men, animals, and wagons of the U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps at Brandy Station, Va., in a February 1864 photograph by Timothy H. O’Sullivan. The lone soldier propped atop the pole in the back, it seems, had the riskiest job of the lot, responsible for securing the telegraph lines to the posts.
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