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U.S. Army Signal Corps station on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking the Antietam battlefield.. 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 ...
Wigwag flags being carried by the Signal Corps while extending a telegraph line at Manila during the Spanish–American War in 1898. The Civil War was the high point of the use of wigwag, but there were some other campaigns that included flag signalmen, mainly against Native Americans.
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 ...
The Signal Corps was organized with the enlisted ranks of sergeant, private first class and private second class. [13] Sergeants of the Signal Corps wore yellow chevrons with crossed signal flags and privates just the flags. [14] On April 28, 1863, an Invalid Corps was added to the army. [15]
A typical US Signal Corps guidon features wig-wag flags. In the 1850s, U.S. Army Major Albert J. Myer, a surgeon by training, developed a system using left or right movements of a flag (or torch or lantern at night). Myer's system used a single flag, waved back and forth in a binary code conceptually similar to the Morse code of dots and dashes ...
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia produced by the United States Army Institute of Heraldry. It is in the public domain but its use is restricted by Title 18, United States Code, Section 704 [1] and the Code of Federal Regulations (32 CFR, Part 507) [2] , [3] .