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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."
Increased rank of Chief Signal Officer to brigadier general. Act of January 28, 1881 21 Stat. 321: 16: 6 10 Authorized promotion of Edward O. C. Ord to major general on the retired list. Act of June 30, 1882 22 Stat. 118: 16: 6 10 Mandated retirement at sixty-four years of age.
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 ...
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 ...
Squier became executive officer to the Chief Signal Officer, Brigadier General James Allen, in July 1907, and immediately convinced Allen to create an aviation entity within the Signal Corps. [2] The Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps, consisting at its inception of one officer and two enlisted men, began operation on August 1, 1907.
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.
The U.S. Army asked nearly 20 high-ranking officers who were planning to retire or move to another job to delay their career moves and stay in their current roles through December.
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.