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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
The Signal Corps A. W. Greely, Major-General, United States Army No other arm of the military services during the Civil War excited a tithe of the curiosity and interest which surrounded the Signal Corps. To the onlooker, the messages of its waving flags, its winking lights and its rushing rockets were always mystic in theiackson clamored for it until Lee gave a corps to him, Jackson saying, The enemy's signals give him a great advantage over me. Telegraphing for the armies A. W. Greely, Major-General, United States Army The telegraph. No orders ever had to be given to establish the telegraph. Thus wrote General Grant in his Memoirs. g kettle at their feet. Yet their lot, as McClellan's army advanced toward Richmond and later, was to be far from enviable. The telegraph service, writes General A. W. Greely, had neither definite personnel nor corps organization. It was simply a civilian bureau attached to the quartermatster's department, in which a few of its
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Introduction: soldiers and citizens (search)
n and Democratic Presidents, as well as in the National Congress. But immense indeed would be the literary enterprise undertaking to cover all the results in American civic life of Civil War training. There have been State governors by the hundreds who could look back upon service with the armies. There have been members of legislatures by the tens of thousands. War-time portraits of Federal soldiers who contributed to the photographic history half a century later Captain A. W. Greely, 1863; later Maj.-Gen., U. S. A.; chief, signal service (Signals; Telegraph). Private Geo. L. Kilmer in 1864, wearing the Veteran Stripe at 18 (Military editor). Private J. E. Gilman, lost an arm at Gettysburg; commander-in-chief G. A. R. 1910-11 (Grand Army of the Republic). Bvt. Brig.-Gen. T. F. Rodenbough, U. S. A., in 1865; wounded at Trevilian and Winchester; later Secretary, U. S. Military service institution (Cavalry editor). Capt. F. Y. Hedley in 1864, age 20; later
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ously......July 11, 1884 Blaine's letter of acceptance published......July 18, 1884 General Logan's letter of acceptance published......July 22, 1884 National Prohibition Convention holds its meeting in Pittsburg, Pa., July 23; ex-Gov. John P. St. John, of Kansas, nominated for President, and William Daniel, of Maryland, for Vice-President......July 24, 1884 National Labor party at Chicago adopts the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-President......July 30, 1884 Lieutenant Greely and his men reach Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 2, and are publicly welcomed......Aug. 4, 1884 Corner-stone of pedestal of the statue of Liberty enlightening the world laid on Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor......Aug. 5, 1884 Thetis, Bear, and Alert, with bodies of the dead of the Greely expedition, arrive at New York......Aug. 8, 1884 Gen. A. M. West, of Mississippi, nominated for Vice-President of United States by national committee of the Anti-monopoly party......Aug. 16, 1884
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ion which accomplished its important work and yet met with disaster was that of Greely, which co-operated with eight other international stations meteorologically. Hncy in the efforts of those at home to get the annual supplies through. One of Greely's assistants, Lieutenant Lockwood, reached the highest latitude up to that timeGeneral Brainard, who accompanied Lockwood, under the title Farthest North with Greely, an excellent account of this memorable effort. Charles Lanman in Farthest Norings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell land, by A. W. Greely (1888); and Greely also wrote Three years of Arctic service (1886). WinfieldGreely also wrote Three years of Arctic service (1886). Winfield S. Schley, afterwards Admiral Schley, commanded the second relief expedition, and it was his energy and determination which put his ships at Cape Sabine just in timeHouse Documents of the 49th Congress and wrote, with J. R. Soley, The rescue of Greely (1885). Evelyn B. Baldwin led the first Ziegler expedition and tells the sto
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
he, 509 Farmer's letters, 535 Farmer's side, 357 Farnham, Thomas Jefferson, 137-8, 42 Farrar, C. A. J., 162 Farragut, Admiral, 399 Farthest North with Greely, 169 Far West sketches, 152 Father Abraham's speech, 393 Father Grumble, 51 I Faust, 41, 238 Faversham, Wm., 279 Fawcett, Edgar, 278 Fay, E. A.les), 461 Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods, 461 Greek moods and tenses, 464 Greeley, Horace, 40, 45, 46, 181, 322, 324, 331, 415, 437 Greely, A. W., 169 Green, Anna Katharine, (Mrs. Rohlfs), 86 Green, Samuel, 533 Green, T. H., 239, 254 Green, W. H., 206, 207 Greene, G. W., 489 Greene, W. B., 438es and the possessions of great Britain, 153 Report upon the Colorado River of the West, 156 Repplier, Agnes, 129 Republic of Republics, 351 Rescue of Greely, the, 169 Resources of the United States, 432 Resurgam, 37 Retrospection and introspection, 525 Return of Peter Grimm, the, 282 Reusz, P. J., 582 Reve
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), G (search)
seq.,65 seq. Gravelotte, losses at, X., 140. Grave's Infantry, Confederate, I., 350. Gray, M. M., VI., 267. Grays, N. Y. Eighth Inf., VIII., 91. Graysville, Ga., headquarters of, R. W. Johnson, III., 105. Great Emancipator, Lincoln, A., I., 67. Great Falls, Md., I., 348. Great Ogeechee River Ix., 169. Greek fire used by incendiaries Viii., 312. Greeley, Horace Ii., 31, 76; in N. Y. Tribune, VIII., 66, 294; IX., 297, 299, 347. Greely, A. W.: VIII., 9, 312, 342, 343; X., 25. Green, A. J., I., 103. Green, C., VI., 119. Green, E., VIII., 153 Green, M. E., X., 151. Green, T.: II., 334, 342, 346, 352; VI., 147; X., 153. Green Chapel, Ky., II., 328. Green Mountain Boys: at drill, VIII., 64, 65. Green River, Ky., IV., 148. Greenbrier, W. Va., I., 352. Greene, F. V., VIII., 192. Greene, G. S.: II., 61, 65, 70, 256; IX., 213; X., 305. Greene, S. D., VI., 36,