I turned on the computer yesterday morning and saw an article title on the screen headlined

The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Lincoln End Slavery  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-60-000-telegram-that-helped-lincoln-end-slavery?utm_source=pocket-newtab

and the last word in the first paragraph was "Nevada." I said to myself, "I bet Harry Innes, Jr. was connected to this." 

And sure enough, I was right!

The success of the $60,000 telegram in August 1864, along with the Confederate defeats @ Mobile Bay and Atlanta, insured Lincoln would win reelection, continue to beat the Confederacy into unconditional surrender and annihilate all hope for Southern Independence.

  Recollection of the War by a
Confederate Officer from California
BY HARRY INNES THORNTON, Jr.

https://www.militarymuseum.org/Thornton.pdf