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However, the Signal Corps dates its existence from 21 June 1860, when Congress authorized the appointment of one signal officer in the Army, and a War Department order carried the following assignment: "Signal Department—Assistant Surgeon Albert J. Myer to be Signal Officer, with the rank of Major, 17 June 1860, to fill an original vacancy."
The wigwag system was invented in the 1850s by US Army surgeon Albert J. Myer who became the first Chief Signal Officer of the US Army in command of the Signal Corps. Wigwag was used extensively by both sides in the American Civil War , where it was an essential adjunct to electrical telegraphy , and continued to see use in both America and ...
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 ...
At West Point in 1922. After completing his initial infantry assignment, in 1925 O'Connell graduated from the Signal School at Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey. [3]During the early 1920s he served as communications officer for the 35th Infantry Regiment at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, [4] and commanded a company in the 24th Infantry Regiment.
United States Army officers who held the post of Chief Signal Officer. Pages in category "Chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Signal Commands of the United States Army (7 P) Pages in category "Signal units and formations of the United States Army" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Authorized promotion to major general on the retired list of any retired brigadier general who served in the Army throughout the Civil War, the Spanish–American War, and the interval between the wars; commanded a brigade or higher as a general officer in operations against an enemy; and either was recommended to be a major general of ...
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.