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Cobb's Hill (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
n While an occasional high tree was used for a perch, yet the country was so heavily timbered that signal towers were necessary. There were nearly a dozen lines of communication and a hundred separate stations. The most notable towers were Cobb's Hill, one hundred and twenty-five feet; Crow's Nest, one hundred and twenty-six feet, and Peebles Farm, one hundred and forty-five feet, which commanded views of Petersburg, its approaches, railways, the camps and fortifications. Cobb's Hill, on tCobb's Hill, on the Appomattox, was particularly irritating and caused the construction of an advance Confederate earthwork a mile distant, from which fully two hundred and fifty shot and shell were fired against the tower in a single—day with slight damage, however. Similar futile efforts were made to destroy Crow's Nest. At General Meade's headquarters a signal party had a unique experience—fortunately not fatal though thrilling in the extreme. A signal platform was built in a tree where, from a height o
San Juan River (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
. Many times before the fall were orders flashed by night by means of waving torches to commands widely separated; and in the daytime the signal-men standing drew on themselves the attention of the Confederate sharpshooters. A message begun by one signal-man was often finished by another who picked up the flag his fallen companion had dropped. The tower at Jacksonville, Florida, over a hundred feet high, kept in communication with the signal tower it Yellow Bluff, at the mouth of the St. John's River. Note the two men with the Signal Corps flag on its summit. Just below them is an enclosure to which they could retire when the efforts of the Confederate sharpshooters became too threatening. Signal stations from the Mississippi to 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, overl
Washington, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ication of signal stores was made at the Colonel Benjamin F. Fisher and his assistants at Signal Corps headquarters, Washington Although authorized as a separate corps by the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, the Signal Corps did not compother authority than that of the Secretary of War, but operators, engaged in active campaigning thousands of miles from Washington, were independent of the generals under whom they were serving. As will appear later, operators suffered from the natu situation and won final confidence. Emergent conditions in 1861 caused the seizure of the commercial systems around Washington, and Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott was made general manager of all such lines. He secured the cooperationo sentences, reading: If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. Eckert also withheld from President Lincoln the despatch announci
Allatoona (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
age of Antietam, on Kenesaw Mountain deciding the fate of Allatoona, in Sherman's march to the sea, and with Grant's victorioSignal Corps was connected with the successful defense of Allatoona, Sherman's reserve depot in which were stored three millin of about sixty-five hundred men was detached to capture Allatoona. With the Confederates intervening and telegraph lines dsaw Mountain. Corse was at Rome, thirty-six miles beyond Allatoona. From Vining's Station, the message was flagged over the heads of the foe to Allatoona by way of Kenesaw, and thence telegraphed to Corse, as follows: General Corse: Sherman direct General Vandever. At the same time a message was sent to Allatoona: Sherman is moving with force. Hold out. And again: Holdgress of the battle. That afternoon came a despatch from Allatoona, sent during the engagement: We are all right so far. Genal work of value intervened between Missionary Ridge and Allatoona, so that the Signal Corps was placed even more to the fro
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
en 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-school at Red Hill, such towers were rising along the already beleaguered Confederate coast. This one at Charleston, South Carolina, is swarming with young Confederate volunteers gazing out to sea in anticipation of the advent of the foe. They had not long to wait. During nearly four years the Union fleet locked them in their harbor. For all that time Fort Sumter and its neighbors defied the Union power. corps eventually numbered about three hundred officers and twenty-five hundred men. Authorized as a separate corps by the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1863, its organization was not completed until Aug
Hilton Head (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
en the army and navy became imperative. The signal station adjoining the one portrayed above was erected on the house formerly owned by John C. Calhoun, lying within sight of Fort Pulaski, at the mouth of the Savannah River. Late in December, General Hardee and his Confederate troops evacuated the city. Sherman was enabled to make President Lincoln a present of one of the last of the Southern strongholds. Signaling by the sea the white flag with the red center From shore to ship—Hilton head signal station While an occasional high tree was used for a perch, yet the country was so heavily timbered that signal towers were necessary. There were nearly a dozen lines of communication and a hundred separate stations. The most notable towers were Cobb's Hill, one hundred and twenty-five feet; Crow's Nest, one hundred and twenty-six feet, and Peebles Farm, one hundred and forty-five feet, which commanded views of Petersburg, its approaches, railways, the camps and fortifications.
Bermuda Hundred (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
ort Hudson, her signal officer, working, meanwhile, in the maintop. As the running of the batteries was thus found to be too dangerous, the vessel dropped back and the signal officer suggested that he occupy the very tip of the highest mast for his working perch, 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 r
Savannah (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
f Hilton Head Island, Port Royal Bay. Through this station were exchanged many messages between General W. T. Sherman and Admiral S. F. Dupont. Sherman had been forced by Savannah's stubborn resistance to prepare for siege operations against the city, and perfect cooperation between the army and navy became imperative. The signal station adjoining the one portrayed above was erected on the house formerly owned by John C. Calhoun, lying within sight of Fort Pulaski, at the mouth of the Savannah River. Late in December, General Hardee and his Confederate troops evacuated the city. Sherman was enabled to make President Lincoln a present of one of the last of the Southern strongholds. Signaling by the sea the white flag with the red center From shore to ship—Hilton head signal station While an occasional high tree was used for a perch, yet the country was so heavily timbered that signal towers were necessary. There were nearly a dozen lines of communication and a hundred sep
Elk Mountain (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
march. Although unprotected, he held his station to the last and was finally captured by the Southern troops. Signal officer pierce receiving a message from General McClellan at the elk mountain station after the battle of Antietam Elk Mountain is in the South Mountain Range of the Blue Ridge; its summit here shown commanded a view of almost the entire Antietam battlefield during September 17th, 1862, the bloodiest single day of the Civil War. The Elk Mountain Signal Station was opereld his station to the last and was finally captured by the Southern troops. The reoccupancy of Sugar Loaf a week later enabled McClellan to establish a network of stations, whose activities contributed to the victory of South Mountain. As Elk Mountain dominated the valley of the Antietam, Headquarters of the Union signal corps at Vicksburg 1864 After the surrender of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863, the Signal Corps of Grant's army was under the command of Lieutenant John W. Deford, a rec
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 16
-pauses, while the outer, larger disk contained At Yorktown. Skilled Union signal parties were available for the PFranklin's command at West Point, after the evacuation of Yorktown, was largely due to the efficiency of the Signal Corps. Union Battery No. 1 on the left, in the peach-orchard, at Yorktown, and the York River lies at hand, to the right of the house. A lookout on the roof of Farenholt's house, Yorktown Army and navy These quarters were established near Hations of defeat. They were seen on the advanced lines of Yorktown, Petersburg, and Richmond, in the saps and trenches at Chtillery of the army and the heavy guns of the navy. At Yorktown, coigns of vantage were occupied in high trees and on lofFranklin's command at West Point, after the evacuation of Yorktown, was in large part due to the efficiency of the Signal Cos to a pensionable status. At the telegraphers' tent, Yorktown—May, 1862 These operators with their friends at dinner
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