Edit: There’s a lot of people in the comment section who clearly didn’t read the article so let me clarify that no, this is not about Judge Aileen Cannon. Read. The. Damn. Article.

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Agreed but Telegraph was definitely a thing during the civil war, so information could move at lightning speed.

    • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      True- I’ve usually made the point about technological distance between civilian and military when people bring up ‘Revolution’ so I had to kind of adapt it for the US Civil war to include trains and forgot about telegraphs.

      Kind of crazy to think the Revolution and Civil War were about as far apart as the Civil War and WWII, but then think about the difference between the advancements in military technology between each.