[21twelve]

I would have thought Galveston would have had a telegraph line at least.

I'm guessing that the bureaucrats had to look at the calendar and figure out the best place to put a new vacation day, and then found some date, no matter how obscure, that would fit. Seriously.

[Yo-Yo]

I would have thought Galveston would have had a telegraph line at least.

I bet they knew in a heck of a lot less time than two years that the country was at Civil War.