B. @Chandler, manager of postal telegraphs. He worked for the War Department during the Civil War.

On New Year's morning, 1864, President Lincoln entered the War Department building. He was always a bit jumpy. Now, though, he had become very tense. He was irritated by hearing a woman wailing over a child in her arms. @Major @Eckert asked the woman why she was crying. He brought back the painful but not surprising explanation. She was the wife of a soldier.