Where did 1800's telegraph get electricity?

Subject: Where did 1800's telegraph get electricity?

Date: Mon Feb 10 20:51:13 1997
Posted by: Paul Wright
Grade level: other
School/Organization: School of Hard Knocks?
City: Alexandria State/Province: VA
Country: USA
Area of science: Engineering
Message ID: 855629473.Eg

Message:

Where did 1800's telegraph get electricity? 
In the mid 1800's in the US there were long range telegraph lines.  
Where did they get electricity?  If they were using batteries, 
how did they charge them?

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