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  2. Signal Corps in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Signal Corps in the American Civil War comprised two organizations: the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which began with the appointment of Major Albert J. Myer as its first signal officer just before the war and remains an entity to this day, and the Confederate States Army Signal Corps, a much smaller group of officers and men, using similar ...

  3. United States Army Signal Corps - Wikipedia

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    Standard Issue Civil War Signal Corps Kit, complete with flags and torches. While serving as a medical officer in Texas in 1856, Albert James Myer proposed that the Army use his visual communications system, called aerial telegraphy (or "wig-wag"). When the Army adopted his system on 21 June 1860, the Signal Corps was born with Myer as the ...

  4. Albert J. Myer - Wikipedia

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    Albert James Myer (September 20, 1828 – August 24, 1880) was a surgeon and United States Army general. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.

  5. Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army - Wikipedia

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    The Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army was a position which was established during the American Civil War.Over the course of a century, the chief signal officer was the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Signal Corps which at various times was responsible for combat communications, strategic communications, military aviation, homing pigeons, designing and purchasing the Army's ...

  6. William Babcock Hazen - Wikipedia

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    William Babcock Hazen (September 27, 1830 – January 16, 1887) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army.

  7. Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps - Wikipedia

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    The Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps [1] (1907–1914) was the first heavier-than-air military aviation organization in history and the progenitor of the United States Air Force. [2]

  8. Confederate Secret Service - Wikipedia

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    The Confederate Signal Corps was established in 1862. Nearly 1,200 men were in the secret service, most of whom were well-to-do and knew more than one language. Example: Alexander Campbell Rucker, brother of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker, was in the Confederate Secret Service. [2] Major William Norris was their commander.

  9. William Norris (Confederate signal officer) - Wikipedia

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    Norris and his family returned to Brookline near Reisterstown. After the war Norris considered going to Chile to set up a signal corps for the military there. In 1866 Norris wrote a letter to the lawyer defending John H. Surratt from complicity in the Lincoln assassination. Norris absolved Surratt of any involvement and offered to testify in ...