From the online diary of Sergeant Jacob Rhodes: My regiment, the 30th Pennsylvania, commanded by Lieutenant Godspeed Frick Humblebelly, just received our new iPads.  Hooray for the Union and for Mr. Lincoln!  I have downloaded many apps.  Twitter is most useful.  I have been made sergeant of my company, and Twittering orders is very efficient.  I also enjoy playing the Tetris game when the day is over and I am lying in my tent at night! Anyway, we march to Washington tomorrow to join the Army that is assembling there.  I am sure this war will be over very soon, and then perhaps we can once more be one nation and everyone can have iPads!

From the online diary of Sergeant Jacob Rhodes:

My regiment, the 30th Pennsylvania, commanded by Lieutenant Godspeed Frick Humblebelly, just received our new iPads.  Hooray for the Union and for Mr. Lincoln! 

I have downloaded many apps.  Twitter is most useful.  I have been made sergeant of my company, and Twittering orders is very efficient.  I also enjoy playing the Tetris game when the day is over and I am lying in my tent at night!

Anyway, we march to Washington tomorrow to join the Army that is assembling there.  I am sure this war will be over very soon, and then perhaps we can once more be one nation and everyone can have iPads!

From the New York Herald: Here ye, here ye.  Our splendid new commander-in-chief has signed an agreement with Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, which will provide an iPad to every Union soldier! Said the president: “These machines will allow our troops to connect with the mystic cords of memory and will instigate a new birth of freedom.” Said Steve Jobs: “This is a really innovative and well-designed product and I’m sure the boys in blue will really enjoy the touch-screen interface.” This is surely the most grand development in our nation’s history since Ben Franklin invented the bi-focal! View high resolution

From the New York Herald:

Here ye, here ye.  Our splendid new commander-in-chief has signed an agreement with Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, which will provide an iPad to every Union soldier!

Said the president: “These machines will allow our troops to connect with the mystic cords of memory and will instigate a new birth of freedom.”

Said Steve Jobs: “This is a really innovative and well-designed product and I’m sure the boys in blue will really enjoy the touch-screen interface.”

This is surely the most grand development in our nation’s history since Ben Franklin invented the bi-focal!