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Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
es bound the corps together like a perfect nervous system, and kept the great controlling head in touch with all its parts. Not until Grant cut loose from Washington and started from Brandy Station for Richmond was its full power tested. Two operators and a few orderlies accompanied each wagon, and the army crossed the Rapidan with the telegraph line going up at the rate of two miles an hour. At no time after that did any corps lose direct communication with the commanding general. At Spotsylvania the Second Corps, at sundown, swung round from the extreme right in the rear of the main body to the left. Ewell saw the movement, and advanced toward the exposed position; but the telegraph signaled the danger, and troops on the double-quick covered the gap before the alert Confederate general could assault the Union lines. ing. Efforts to transfer quartermaster's funds and property to this bureau were successfully resisted, owing to the manifest illegality of such action. Indirect
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
, which was fitted up, one hundred and sixty feet above the water. From this great height it was barely possible to signal over the highland occupied by the foe, and thus maintain Crow's nest—signal tower to the right of Bermuda hundred At headquarters of 14th N. Y. Heavy artillery near Petersburg The Peeble's farm signal tower near Petersburg The signal tower near point of rocks uninterrupted communication and essential cooperation between the fleets of the central and lower Mississippi. The most dramatic use of the Signal Corps was connected with the successful defense of Allatoona, Sherman's reserve depot in which were stored three millions of rations, practically undefended, as it was a distance in the rear of the army. Realizing the utmost importance of the railroad north of Marietta and of the supplies to Sherman, Hood threw Stewart's corps in the rear of the Union army, and French's division of about sixty-five hundred men was detached to capture Allatoona.
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
were but one. That a corps so harassed should constantly distinguish itself in the field is one of the many marvels of American patriotism. Signaling from Fort McAllister, Georgia—the end of the march to the sea General Sherman's flag message with Hazen's soldierly answer upon their arrival at Savannah, December 13, 1864, had Dahlgren's answering message, and the officer with the telescope is prepared to read the signals from the shore. Thus Sherman's message from the parapet of Fort McAllister was read. Commander C. P. R. Rodgers and Admiral Dupont had been prompt to recognize the value of the Army Signal Corps system and to introduce it in the navads of the foe. Of importance, though devoid of danger, among the final messages on arrival at Savannah was one ordering, by flag, the immediate assault on Fort McAllister by Hazen, with the soldierly answer, I am ready and will assault at once, and the other announcing to the expectant fleet that Sherman had completed the famou
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
t. The Federals speedily sent the message of disaster: The enemy has broken our right, taken Stedman, and are moving on City Point. Assuming command, General Parke ordered a counter-attack and recaptured the fort. The City Point wire was promptly restored and Meade, controlling the whole army by telegraph, made a combined and successful attack by several corps, capturing the entrenched picket-line of the Confederates. ceed the ringing messages of October 19, 1863, when Grant, from Louisville, Kentucky, bid Thomas to hold Chattanooga at all hazards, and received the laconic reply in a few hours, I will hold the town till we starve. Here, as elsewhere, appeared the anomalous conditions of the service. While telegraph duties were performed with efficiency, troubles were often precipitated by divided authority. When Superintendent Stager ordered a civilian, who was engaged in building lines, out of Halleck's department, the general ordered him back, saying, There must be one good
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
61, at Georgetown, District of Columbia, with small details from the volunteers, though the Confederate signalmen in 1861 The Confederate signal service was first in the field. Beauregard's report acknowledges the aid rendered his army at Bull Run by Captain (afterwards General) E. P. Alexander, a former pupil of Major A. J. Myer. McDowell was then without signalmen, and so could not communicate regularly with Washington. While Major Myer was establishing a Federal signal training-schoohat the killed of the Signal Corps were one hundred and fifty per cent. of the wounded, as against the usual ratio of twenty per cent. The Confederates were first in the field, for Beauregard's report acknowledges the aid rendered his army at Bull Run by Captain E. P. Alexander, a former pupil of Myer. Mc-Dowell was then without signalmen, and so could neither communicate regularly with Washington nor receive word of the October, 1862—where the Confederate invasion of Maryland was discove
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
nor receive word of the October, 1862—where the Confederate invasion of Maryland was discovered The signal officer is on outlook duty near the Point of Rocks station, in Maryland. This station was opened and operated by First-Lieutenant John H. Fralick for purposes of observation. It completely dominated Pleasant Valley. On the twelfth of the month Fralick had detected and reported General J. E. B. Stuart's raiding cavalry crossing the Potomac on their way back from Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Confederate cavalry leader had crossed the Potomac at Williamsport on the 10th of October, ridden completely around the rear of the Army of the Potomac, and eluded the vigorous pursuit of General Pleasonton and his Union cavalry. Within twenty hours he had marched sixty-five miles and kept up his artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin R. Biles, with the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, opposed Stuart's crossing at Monocacy Ford, but was unable to detain him. This was one of the combination
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
the Atlantic: evidence of the Signal-man's activity throughout the theater of war. After Grant arrived and occupied Chattanooga, Bragg retired up the Cumberland Mountains and took up two strong positions—one upon the top of Lookout Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga from the south, and the other on Missionary Ridge, a somewhat lower elevation to the east. His object was to hold the passes of the mountain against any advance upon his base at Dalton, Georgia, at which point supplies arrived fbaggage, were transported a distance of 1,233 miles in eleven and a half days, from Bristoe Station, Virginia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The troops had completed half their journey before the news of the proposed movement reached Richmond. Whileonfederates. ceed the ringing messages of October 19, 1863, when Grant, from Louisville, Kentucky, bid Thomas to hold Chattanooga at all hazards, and received the laconic reply in a few hours, I will hold the town till we starve. Here, as elsewher
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
araphernalia. During the first two years of the war the common wire was used; but when Grant set out in his Wilderness campaign, a flexible insulated wire was substituted. The large wire was wound on reels and placed in wagons, which drove along the route where the line was to be erected. The men followed, putting up the wire as rapidly as it was unreeled. So expert were the linemen that the work seldom became disarranged. The first lines were constructed around Washington and to Alexandria, Virginia, in May. On the Peninsula the next year, the telegraph followed the troops in all directions. During the Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville campaigns it proved an unfailing means of communication between the army and Washington. As it was intended only for temporary use, the poles were not required to be very substantial, and could usually be found in the wooded Virginia country near any proposed route. The immense labor required in such construction led to the adoption of insula
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
Burnside as a result of the telescopic reconnoitering of Lieutenants N. H. Camp and C. Herzog. It was the message received from this station, Look well to your left, which enabled Burnside to guard his left against A. P. Hill's advance from Harper's Ferry. Signal officer pierce receiving a message from General McClellan at the elk mountain station after the battle of Antietam Signal officer pierce receiving a message from General McClellan at the elk mountain station after the battle of Antietam Signal officer pierce receiving a message from General McClellan at the elk mountain station after the battle of Antietam vitally important despatch from Patterson at Harper's Ferry telling of Johnston's departure to reenforce Beauregard at Manassas, which should have obviated the battle. Major Myer was quick, however, to establish a signal training-school at Red Hill, Georgetown, District of Columbia. In view of modern knowledge and practice, it seems almost incredible to n
Huntsville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
says that about one in twelve of the operators engaged in the service were killed, wounded, captured, or died in the service from exposure. Telegraphic duties at military headquarters yielded little in brilliancy and interest compared to those of desperate daring associated with tapping the opponent's wires. At times, offices were seized so quickly as to prevent telegraphic warnings. General Mitchel captured two large Confederate railway trains by sending false messages from the Huntsville, Alabama, office, and General Seymour similarly seized a train near Jacksonville, Florida. While scouting, Operator William Forster obtained valuable despatches by tapping the line along the CharlestonSa-vannah railway for two days. Discovered, he was pursued by bloodhounds into a swamp, where he was captured up to his armpits in mire. Later, the telegrapher died in prison. In 1863, General Rosecrans deemed it most important to learn whether Bragg was detaching troops to reenforce the g
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