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Telegraph Companies--Southern Telegraph Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, the Southern Telegraph Company (legally chartered as the Confederate Telegraph Company) was established on May 9, 1861, as a state-run conglomerate that presided over several telegraph companies during the Civil War in an effect to create military telegraph lines more protected. The Southern Telegraph Company fell when the Confederacy did in 1865. (Alexandria Gazette, May 13, 1861; J. Cutler Andrews, The Journal of Southern History, "The Southern Telegraph Company, 1861-1865: A Chapter in the History of Wartime Communication," 319–344)

See also: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1861-05-13/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1860&index=2&rows=20&words=Company+Southern+Telegraph&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1865&proxtext=Southern+Telegraph+Company&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

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