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Fishers Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
iplomatic service. A key-word or phrase is agreed upon by the parties who intend to communicate in cipher. The message is written under the key. Suppose, for example, the key to be In God we trust; and the message, Longstreet is marching on Fisher's Hill. It will be written thus: I n G o d w e t r u s t i n G o d w e t r u s t i n G o d w e t r L o n g s t r e e t i s m a r c h i n g o n F i s h e r s H i l l The alphabet is written out in a square, thus: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXe messages of the other side. Early played a ruse on Sheridan in the Valley campaigns. Finding that Sheridan was reading his signals, he caused the following dispatch to be sent to himself by his signal flags: Lieutenant—General early, Fisher's Hill: Be ready to advance on Sheridan as soon as my forces get up, and we can crush him before he finds out I have joined you. (Signed) J. Longstreet. When this was communicated to Sheridan, as Early intended it to be, Sheridan telegraphed
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
to Colonel Wm. Norris. The beginnings of the Signal Service in the Confederate army were about simultaneous in the Peninsular command of General John B. Magruder and in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Beauregard. Captain Norris, a member of General Magruder's staff — a gentleman of scientific education and of some nautical experience-called the attention of the General to the advantages to be derived from a system of signals connecting his outposts and his headquarters with Norfolk. Magruder forthwith gave Captain Norris the necessary authority to establish the service, and appointed him Signal Officer to the command. The signals used by Captain Norris were similar to the marine signals in use by all maritime nations. Poles were erected on which were displayed flags and balls, the combinations of which indicated various phrases, such as were conceived to be most in demand to express the exigencies likely to arise. Captain Norris (hereinafter to be spoken of as
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
s that some important ones, which fell into the hands of the enemy, were deciphered without much trouble. One from General Beauregard, just after the battle at Shiloh Chapel, giving the number and condition of his forces at Corinth, was put up by merely putting the last half of the alphabet first; that is, substituting M for A, N for B, O for C, etc. This dispatch fell into the hands of the enemy, and first reached Richmond in a Yankee newspaper translated. A message from Mr. Davis, at Montgomery, to General E. Kirby Smith, commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, was partly in plain language and partly in cipher, in which is found the following: By which you may effect o—t p g g e x y k—above that part —h j o p g k w m c t patrolled by the, etc., etc. An expert of the United States Military Telegraph Corps guessed that that part of the dispatch was meant to read: By which you may effect a crossing above that part of the river patrolled by the, etc., etc. The guess was right<
Island Number Ten (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
ith a small squad of men, who had been selected and instructed by Captain E. P. Alexander, and a very poor outfit, set up the necessary stations to establish communication between the batteries and intrenchments at New Madrid, Tiptonville, and Island No.10. The extracts following, from official sources, show that, though under manifold disadvantages, the signal men gave a good account of themselves in the first struggle for the possession of the Mississippi river. In his report of the attaad no protection whatever—not even that of the parapet behind which the gunners squatted when not firing—for their position was in rear of the guns, where fell, as Captain Rucker says, many shot and shell. Upon the capture of New Madrid and Island No.10 by Admiral Foote and General Pope, the signal party escaped across Reelfoot lake, taking French leave of the commanding generals and paddling across on a raft of their own construction They repaired at once, of their own motion and without ord
Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
of the attack on Morris Island to the day of the evacuation, my men have transmitted nearly one thousand messages on that Island. On the night of the 5th, the enemy made an attack on Battery Gregg, which failed, and was repulsed by the timely notice from Sullivan's Island Signal Station, which intercepted the following dispatch: To Admiral Dahlgren I shall try Cummins Point to-night and want the sailors again early. Will you please send two or three monitors by dark to open fire on Fort Moultrie as a diversion. The last time they were in, they stopped reinforcements and may do so to-night. Don't want any fire in the rear. (Signed) General Gilmore. The attack on Fort Sumter, on the night of the 8th, was foiled by a similar notice. The dispatch was: General Gilmore The senior officer will take charge of the assaulting party on Fort Sumter, the whole to be under the command of an experienced naval officer. During the attack on Sumter, Private Frank Huger was plac
Early (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
ng his signals, he caused the following dispatch to be sent to himself by his signal flags: Lieutenant—General early, Fisher's Hill: Be ready to advance on Sheridan as soon as my forces get up, and we can crush him before he finds out I have joined you. (Signed) J. Longstreet. When this was communicated to Sheridan, as Early intended it to be, Sheridan telegraphed to Washington, and Halleck telegraphed to Grant. In time, the answer came to Sheridan that Longstreet was nowhere near Early. This telegram was long a puzzle to the Union general. When Early was asked about it after the war, he simply laughed. The Signal Corps was nowhere more useful than where the defense and operations were conducted in a field in which water occupied a large place in the topography. Such were Charleston, South Carolina, and Mobile. The reports of Captain Frank Markoe, Signal Officer at Charleston, show that during the siege thousands of messages were sent from one post to another, and fr
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
The Signal Corps in the Confederate States army. Though communicating by signal and in cip spoken of as Colonel His rank in the Confederate States army appears never to have been higher tginia, and afterwards turned over to the Confederate States. He was detailed for the Signal Service accredited to the secret friends of the Confederate States there, and with instructions that may bere Signal Corps and cipher system of the Confederate States army—therein is included also (a) manufa We receive information regularly from the United States on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For ly and without delay cross to and from the United States, was so seriously appreciated that the Secn from heads of bureaus to obtain from the United States small packages, books, etc. Here our dutienew it. The secret cipher used by the Confederate States War Department was that known as the couervation of messages sent in the field the United States signal men learned to read the Confederate[7 more...]
Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
ave no casualties to report, although their station has suffered from the enemy's fire and is full of holes. As there was no other means of communication with Morris Island, their labors have been very heavy. They have sent over five hundred messages, and at least a third of them under fire. As they are completely exhausted, I ht as much as possible, and feel sure that they can make nothing out of our signals. In his next (September) month's report, Captain Markoe continues: Morris Island was evacuated by our forces on Sunday night, the 6th of September. I brought off my men and all the signal property on the Island. Lance Sergeant Lawrence anPrivate Clark badly burned in the left hand, and Lance Sergeant Laurence struck on the right arm with a piece of shell. From the commencement of the attack on Morris Island to the day of the evacuation, my men have transmitted nearly one thousand messages on that Island. On the night of the 5th, the enemy made an attack on Batter
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
structed a number of men selected from the ranks for their intelligence and good character. Most of these men afterwards became commissioned officers in the Signal Corps. The service was in full operation at the time of the first conflict at Bull Run, and the third shot from Ayres' battery in front of Stone Bridge went through one of Alexander's signal tents, in front of which the flags were being actively plied. General Alexander, in reply to a letter asking for information respecting theye. It was the reflection of the sun (which was low in the east behind me) from a polished brass field-piece, one of Ayres' battery, and observing attentively, I discovered McDowell's columns in the open fields, north of Sudley's Ford, crossing Bull Run and turning our left flank, fully eight miles away, I think,—but you can look at the map—from where I was. I signalled Evans at once, Look out for your left, your position is turned. Just as he got my message his pickets made their first report
Reelfoot Lake (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.11
owed up in every direction and torn to pieces. Trees were hacked down and torn to shreds by the heavy shells and the rifled cannon. The signal men at Battery No. 1 had no protection whatever—not even that of the parapet behind which the gunners squatted when not firing—for their position was in rear of the guns, where fell, as Captain Rucker says, many shot and shell. Upon the capture of New Madrid and Island No.10 by Admiral Foote and General Pope, the signal party escaped across Reelfoot lake, taking French leave of the commanding generals and paddling across on a raft of their own construction They repaired at once, of their own motion and without orders, to Corinth, Mississippi, then headquarters of the army, and reported for duty. The signal officer is merely mentioned by General Beauregard in his report of the fight at Shiloh Chapel (or Pittsburg landing) as doing active staff duty. After the battle, seventeen men were detailed to be instructed for duty in the Signal Co
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