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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 22 (search)
and, noticing the party at the rice-mill, the following dialogue between signal flags ensued:-- Who are you? General Sherman. Is Fort McAllister taken? Not yet; but it will-be in a minute. And in a few minutes it was taken, and the fact signalled to the naval officers on the boat, who were not in sight of the fort. During the battle of Gettysburg, or, at least, while Sickles was contending at the Peach Orchard against odds, the signal men had their flags flying from Little Round Top; but when the day was lost, and Hood with his Texans pressed towards that important point, the signal officers folded their flags, and prepared to visit other and less dangerous scenes. At that moment, however, General Warren of the Fifth Corps appeared, and ordered them to keep their signals waving as if a host were immediately behind them, which they did. General E. P. Alexander, the officer referred to as having organized the Rebel Signal Corps, in an article in the Century Mag