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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.
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Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
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 ...
Signal Corps Manual no.1,Handbook of telephones of the Signal Corps, U.S. Army: 1904: 102: TM/Telephones 209: A primer and vocabulary of the Moro dialect (Maguindanao) 1903: 77: languages 212: Three finding lists issued by the War Department Library: 1903: 146: general 213: Finding list of the Principal Reference Works in the War Department ...
Miscellaneous Indian Records; Nitre and Mining Bureau, War Department, C.S.A., Ochiltree's Detachment of Recruits (Detachment of Regulars) President's Guard, C.S.A. Reserve Corps Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia) Sappers and Miners; Signal Corps, C.S.A. Stirman's Regiment, Sharp Shooters; Young's (5th) Company, Retributors
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 ).