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Joseph E. Johnston (search for this): chapter 1.11
ing back from Corinth, the signal men being sufficiently instructed to go on duty were dispersed to several points in the command. Clagett with one party going to Mobile, Davidson with another to Vicksburg, and Elcan Jones with another to Kirby Smith across the river. These were three good men meriting the promotion they afterwards got. All of them became captains in the Signal Corps, and Elcan Jones, the hero of Battery No. 1, was, at the end of the war, Chief Signal Officer to General Joseph E. Johnston. Although, as has been shown, the Signal Service was in active and useful operation on several theatres of war—in the East in 1861, and early in 1862 in the West—it was not until April 19th, 1862, that the act was approved organizing the Signal Corps as a distinct branch of the Confederate army, and the Secretary of War was authorized to establish it as a separate corps or to attach it to the Adjutant and Inspector's Department or to the Engineer Corps. The Secretary decided to
Carlo Patti (search for this): chapter 1.11
ntioned 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 Corps; but as glasses were scarce, and all the country between Corinth and the Tennessee river was heavily wooded, the men were mounted and served chiefly as scouts and couriers while their instruction was going on and until sent elsewhere. Among those detailed at this time was Carlo Patti, a private of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee infantry—Colonel Smith. He quickly learned his duties and was zealous in their performance. When not employed with his flags and spy-glass, he was incessantly playing his violin. He was once sent as lance sergeant in charge of a squad of prisoners to Mobile, and it was amusing to see the care and watchfulness he displayed in authority. It would have broken his heart had one of his prisoners escaped. To finish with Carlo: He rem
John Pope (search for this): chapter 1.11
ure of ruin and desolation. The parapet was plowed 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 detai
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 1.11
Magruder and in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Beauregard. Captain Norris, a member of General Magruder's stafvice in the Confederate States army. The other was at Beauregard's headquarters at Manassas Junction at about the same tis General) E. P. Alexander, attached to the staff of General Beauregard, was one of the officers who had been detailed by ttime I sent a message of what I had seen to Johnston and Beauregard, who were at Mitchell's Ford, on receipt of which (see Jy's lines by our stations, that they were ordered by General Beauregard to send up rockets themselves. It was done simultanom General Alexander's letter. In February, 1862, General Beauregard took command of the Army of the Mississippi, and assfor duty. The signal officer is merely mentioned by General Beauregard in his report of the fight at Shiloh Chapel (or Pittemy, were deciphered without much trouble. One from General Beauregard, just after the battle at Shiloh Chapel, giving the
Belle Harrison (search for this): chapter 1.11
exigencies likely to arise. Captain Norris (hereinafter to be spoken of as Colonel His rank in the Confederate States army appears never to have been higher than that of Major.—editor. William Norris, Chief of the Signal Corps, Confederate States army,) caused to be made copper stencils, from which colored plates of the combinations were made, and upon the same page of the book which contained the plates were written the meanings of the combinations. The plates were colored by Miss Belle Harrison, of Brandon, and Miss Jennie Ritchie, of Richmond. The system was from time to time improved by Colonel Norris, and this was one of the beginnings of the signal service in the Confederate States army. The other was at Beauregard's headquarters at Manassas Junction at about the same time — in the summer of 1861. Captain (afterwards General) E. P. Alexander, attached to the staff of General Beauregard, was one of the officers who had been detailed by the Secretary of War (United S
Brandon (search for this): chapter 1.11
to arise. Captain Norris (hereinafter to be spoken of as Colonel His rank in the Confederate States army appears never to have been higher than that of Major.—editor. William Norris, Chief of the Signal Corps, Confederate States army,) caused to be made copper stencils, from which colored plates of the combinations were made, and upon the same page of the book which contained the plates were written the meanings of the combinations. The plates were colored by Miss Belle Harrison, of Brandon, and Miss Jennie Ritchie, of Richmond. The system was from time to time improved by Colonel Norris, and this was one of the beginnings of the signal service in the Confederate States army. The other was at Beauregard's headquarters at Manassas Junction at about the same time — in the summer of 1861. Captain (afterwards General) E. P. Alexander, attached to the staff of General Beauregard, was one of the officers who had been detailed by the Secretary of War (United States) to test and
Halleck (search for this): chapter 1.11
r 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 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 Cha
William Norris (search for this): chapter 1.11
hat result. Letter of Jefferson Davis to Colonel Wm. Norris. The beginnings of the Signal Servicorthern Virginia under General Beauregard. Captain Norris, a member of General Magruder's staff — a cer to the command. The signals used by Captain Norris were similar to the marine signals in use express the exigencies likely to arise. Captain Norris (hereinafter to be spoken of as Colonel t Richmond, is best defined in a letter of Colonel Norris' in answer to an officer, representing theinformation and out of what fund paid for, Colonel Norris says: Accredited agents constantly ition personally or from friendly parties? Colonel Norris says: Two of our agents acquire their info April to the last of September, continues Colonel Norris on another head, we placed files of Baltimew York papers, of course, a day later. Colonel Norris gives the history of the secret service brimore, and New York. It was the duty of Colonel Norris to wait on Mr. Davis every morning with th[5 more...]
Wilkinson (search for this): chapter 1.11
fitfully flashed a light, which was soon answered from the shore station. Advice was then given as to condition of things off the port, the station and movements of the hostile fleet, etc. If the word was go in, the beacon lights were set and the blockade-runner boldly steamed over the bar and into the port. A naval officer was in charge of the office of orders and details at the several ports, whence proceeded all orders and assignments in relation to pilots and signal officers. Captain Wilkinson, C. S. N., in his interesting Narrative of a blockade-runner, tells the following incident illustrative of the uses of a signal officer in this line of duty: The range lights were showing and we crossed the bar without interference and without a suspicion of anything wrong, as would occasionally happen under particularly favorable circumstances that we would cross the bar without even seeing a blockader. We were under the guns of Fort Fisher, in fact, and close to the fleet of United
A. T. Leftwich (search for this): chapter 1.11
anding the post, speaks highly of his conduct on that occasion. The enemy have been using a cipher in signalling, which has so far baffled our attempts to read their messages. They have not used it lately, however, and several important dispatches have been read. Captain Markoe's rolls show the employment of seventy-six men, of which number he lost through casualties as large a per cent. as any command in the action. Twelve of his men did nothing but read the enemy's papers. Mr. A. T. Leftwich, who was stationed in the cupola of the courthouse at Vicksburg, in 1863, contributes the following reminiscence: During the siege, a fifteen-inch mortar shell went through the top of the courthouse and exploded on the lower floor, where there were quartered some one hundred or so men. It seemed to me as if the whole earth had exploded, for I was in a room on the second floor— and need scarcely say that the horrible sight of finding fourteen mep scattered into fragments and a nu
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