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It will transform the nature of this war,as information and decisions can flow backwards and forwards, at lightning speed.
這改變了這場戰(zhàn)爭的本質因為信息和決策如今能夠以光速在各地來回傳送
It became kind of the early version of e-mail.
這算得上是電子郵件的早期形式
Suddenly it was possible to get a message to somebody from St. Louis
突然之間身處圣路易斯的某人可以把消息傳給
you know, to get a message to New York
比如說傳給紐約的某個人
in a shockingly short amount of time.
而這些都只需要很短的時間
Lincoln immediately realizes the telegraph's potential as a weapon of war.
林肯馬上意識到了電報作為一個戰(zhàn)爭武器的潛力
He insists on the installation of telegraph lines directly into the War Department.
他堅決要求安裝直通陸軍部的電報線路
And he quickly acts to place all telegraph facilities in the Union under military control.
并迅速采取行動將聯(lián)邦內的所有電報傳輸設施都劃歸軍方控制
The Telegraph Office becomes the central hub of Lincoln's war operation. His command and control center.
這個電報辦公室成為一個中央樞紐，林肯在這里組織、指揮、控制戰(zhàn)事
He even takes to sleeping here at busy times.
他忙的時候甚至會睡在這里
The Telegraph Office manager, David Homer Bates,describes how Lincoln obsesses over every scrap of news from the front:
電報辦公室的經(jīng)理大衛(wèi)·荷馬·貝茨描述了林肯有多專注于戰(zhàn)爭前線傳來的任何一條消息
sometimes reading dispatches word by word as they are deciphered.
他常常逐字逐句讀這些急件就像是在破譯密碼一般
Lincoln's habit was to go immediately to the drawer each time he came into our room,and read over the telegraphs beginning at the top until he came to the one he had seen on his previous visit.
每次林肯走進房間就會習慣性地直接去查看抽屜從最上面的電報開始仔細閱讀 一直讀到他上次已經(jīng)看過的為止
The North's telegraph network spreads its tentacles far and wide,sucking information back to Lincoln and his commanders in Washington.
北方的電報網(wǎng)延伸發(fā)展到四面八方從各處采集的信息反饋到了林肯和他在華盛頓的指揮官們手中
It gives him a vast strategic overview,providing him an unrivaled insight into his commanders' tactical thinking.
這將全局性的戰(zhàn)略視野和無可匹敵的前瞻思維融入了他的指揮戰(zhàn)術
Lincoln himself was able to stay on top of, literally, hour-by-hour developments in the course of individual battles.
林肯得以隨時跟蹤著，可以說是每小時都在更新專注著每場戰(zhàn)斗的即時戰(zhàn)況
That had never happened before.
以前從沒有指揮官能做到這一點
To the irritation of his generals,it even allows him to issue his own direct orders,telling them how to fight.
讓他的將軍們有些惱火的是這甚至讓他得以直接發(fā)布自己的命令，告訴他們該如何作戰(zhàn)
