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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