With the small force we had it would have been impossible to maintain our mail, telegraph and overland routes successfully, if it had not been for our system of block-houses and stockades, dotted for thousands of miles over each of the overland routes.
Dodge highlights the importance of block-houses and stockades in maintaining communication routes during the Civil War.
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