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	The Signal Corps
		The Union Signal Corps was extremely active in gathering information and transmitting orders, and for perhaps the first time in military history the commanding general of a large army was kept in communication during active operations with his corps and division commanders.
		The most dramatic use of the Signal Corps was connected with the successful defense of Allatoona, Sherman's reserve depot in which were stored three millions of rations, practically undefended, as it was a distance in the rear of the army.
		Signaling, telegraphy, and secret-service work were all done by the corps, which proved to be a potent f actor in the efficient operations of the various armies.
	www.civilwarhome.com /signalcorps.htm (3643 words)

	Antietam National Battlefield - The Signal Corps (U.S. National Park Service)
		A signal system using flags and torches was invented by a U.S. Army surgeon, Major Albert Meyer, in the 1850's and adopted by the U.S. Army in 1860.
		Signal parties used different combinations of flag size, color, and staff length to increase the readability of the signal.
		Meyer's Manual of Signals stated that with a 12-foot staff and 4-foot flag, signals "are easily read at a distance of 8 miles at all times, except in cases of fog or rain.
	www.nps.gov /anti/historyculture/signal.htm (1089 words)

	Lone Sentry: Service: Story of the Signal Corps -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		From the days of smoke and wig-wag signals, through years of pioneering, research and constant development, the Signal Corps advanced with science to perfect the ultra-modern organization which today employs telephone, telegraph, radio and radar to direct and guide the operations of America's military forces.
		Largest single Signal Corps task was the buildup of Signal supplies sufficient for the coming campaign as well as for normal consumption by troops stationed in the U.K. Thousands of tons of supplies and equipment required a storage and warehouse system on a scale greater than ever before conceived.
		Signal supplies, arriving on the Continent at the rate of 6000 tons weekly, were composed of approximately 31,000 separate items.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/signalcorps/index.html (5914 words)

	Signal Corps
		The Signal Regiment's mission is to provide and manage seamless, protected, survivable, integrated and dynamic information services; acquire and integrate relevant information technologies and related doctrine into the force; and to provide highly trained soldiers, leaders and organizations to achieve information superiority for the full-spectrum force.
		Using flags for daytime signaling and a torch at night, wigwag was tested in Civil War combat in June 1861 to direct the fire of a harbor battery at Fort Calhoun (Fort Wool) against the Confederate positions opposite Fort Monroe.
		The Signal Corps' role in the Spanish American War of 1898 and the subsequent Philippine Insurrection was on a grander scale than it had been in the Civil War.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/signal.htm (1091 words)

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		In practice, signal officers with telescopes became a valued source of intelligence, through first-hand observation of enemy activity and, later, through observation of enemy signal stations and the acquired ability to 'break' their signal codes.
		Since the mid-1970s, interest in the role of the Signal Corps in the American Civil War (1861-1865) has drawn the attention of re-enactors, or 'interpreters,' as well as researchers, to a more detailed examination of equipment used by the Confederate (who were actually 'first in the field') and U.S. organizations.
		After the war the organization shrunk to so few men that 'corps' might have seemed a joke, yet this was the time when the War Department assigned to the Corps the responsibility to serve as the central source for procurement and issuance of telescopes and field glasses.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/signalcp.txt (2228 words)

	The Signal Corps in the Confederate States Army
		After the battle, seventeen men were detailed to be instructed for duty in the Signal Corps; but as glasses were scarce, and all the country between Corinth and the Tennessee river was heavily wooded, the men were mounted and served chiefly as scouts and couriers while their instruction was going on and until sent elsewhere.
		The Signal Corps, as organized, consisted of one Major Commanding, ten Captains, ten first and ten second-class Lieutenants and twenty Sergeants--there were no privates, as men were detailed from the line of the army whenever wanted, and when their services were no longer required they returned to their respective commands.
		The Signal Corps was nowhere more useful than where the defense and operations were conducted in a field in which water occupied a large place in the topography.
	www.civilwarhome.com /confedsignalcorps.htm (4404 words)

	U.S. Army Regulations Illustration: Link 158 Signal Corps Uniforms
		The corps was organized only as a provisional body and not as a permanent branch of the United States Army during the war.
		That said, the activity of the Signal Corps during the war proved to be valuable enough to cause the Corps to become a permanent branch of service of the U.S. Army in 1866.
		The crossed signal flags, worn by enlisted men were originally to be worn on the left arm, but in practice was worn on both sides.
	members.tripod.com /howardlanham/linkgr3/link158.html (837 words)

	Signal Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Signal Corps is a military branch, usually subordinate to a country's army, responsible for the military communications (signals).
		Many countries have a Signal Corps, whose main function is usually communication (in modern times, usually radio, telephone or now digital communications on the battlefield).
		Royal Corps of Signals was founded in the United Kingdom (under the name Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers) in 1884
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Signal_Corps (140 words)

	United States Army Signal Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Using flags for daytime signaling and a torch at night, wigwag was tested in Civil War combat in June 1861 to direct the fire of a harbor battery at Fort Wool against the Confederate positions opposite Fort Monroe.
		The Signal Corps was authorized as a separate branch of the Army by act of Congress on 3 March 1863.
		Branch Insignia: The Signal Corps branch insignia is represented by two signal flags crossed, dexter flag white with a red center, the sinister flag red with a white center, staffs gold, with a flaming torch of gold color metal upright at center of crossed flags.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._Army_Signal_Corps (2404 words)

	Stories of the Signal Corps Military Images - Find Articles
		Charles Moulton, 34th Massachusetts, wrote home in March 1863, "A detachment of the Signal Corps has been sent to the Forts Lyon and Worth and it is really amusing to witness their interchanges of dumb signals by flags in the daytime and colored lanterns at night.
		Any member of the Signal Corps is not allowed to converse or even speak to, any person aside from his own organization and they are confined to a tent by themselves.
		Indeed, since both sides used the same basic flag signals in which, for example, the flag dipped twice to the left indicated the letter "A," messages had to be sent in code and Signal Corps members had to be able to translate these coded messages.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3905/is_200111/ai_n9015403 (605 words)

	GoArmy.com > Careers & Jobs > Signal Officer (25A)
		A Signal Corps Officer, then, must be an expert in planning, installing, integrating, operating and maintaining the Army's voice, data and information systems, services and resources.
		Signal Officer training includes completion of the Signal Officer Basic Course (SOBC), where you will learn leadership skills, tactics, maintenance and operational aspects of the systems and tools used in the Signal Corps.
		Signal Officers can continue in the Operations career field, serving in the Army Signal Corps at ever increasing levels of leadership and responsibility.
	www.goarmy.com /JobDetail.do?id=299 (446 words)

	Signal Corps Regimental Association - National Office Fort Gordon, Ga
		The primary purpose of the Signal Corps Regimental Association awards program is to recognize deserving members of the Association who have made significant contributions to both the Signal* Corps (Regiment) and the Signal Corps Regimental Association.
		When a Corps colonel or GO is not available, the award board may approve the award.
		Approval authority for the bronze may be a Signal Corps lieutenant colonel in command, a colonel or a general officer.
	www.signalcorps.org /awards.htm (1159 words)

	Signal Corps Regimental Insignia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The design originated in 1865 from a meeting of Signal Corps officers, led by Major Albert Myer, the Chief Signal Officer, in Washington, DC.
		The badge was a symbol of faithful service and good fellowship for those who served together in war and was called the "Order of the Signal Corps." The motto "PRO PATRIA VIGILANS" was adopted from the Signal School insignia and serves to portray the cohesiveness of Signal soldiers and their affiliation with their regimental home.
		It adorned a Signal flag and was first awarded to Signal Corps soldiers in 1862.
	www.paulnoll.com /Korea/581-Sig/Signal-Regimental-Insignia.html (171 words)

	10-16
		It sketches the growth of the corps from its birth in 1860 to the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939 (Chs.
		Each of the main activities of the corps is treated: research and development; procurement, testing, and evaluation; the storage, distribution, and maintenance of devices and systems of communication; and the elaborate training programs needed to see that all of these activities were accomplished effectively.
		The Outcome follows the Signal Corps through the subsequent theaters of combat: from the assault landings in Sicily and Italy; through the hedgerows of France; to the jungles of the CBI and the Southwest Pacific.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/11-9/10-16.htm (1110 words)

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		The Signal Corps as a branch of service began essentially on July 2nd, 1860, with the appointment of Assistant Surgeon Albert J. Myer by General Order 17.
		The mission of the Signal Corps is to establish and maintain communications.
		The Signal Corps would unify the military systems of the country under some very adverse conditions.
	www.ussignalcorps.com (336 words)

	National Park Service
		Understand the role of the signal corps during the Civil War.
		Signal flags came in three different colors to use against a variety of backgrounds.
		Signal posts were dangerous because they were exposed to enemy fire.
	www.nps.gov /stri/lear_les1_signalcorps.htm (635 words)

	METEOROLOGY SCHOOLS IN THE US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
		The Signal Corps staffed offices coast to coast with trained observers whose job was to keep headquarters in Washington supplied with the meteorological data on which the Army's weathermen based their forecasts.
		A permanent Signal Corps enlisted personnel corps was provided for by the Act of 3 March 1875, authorizing 150 sergeants, 30 corporals, and 270 privates.
		In August 1919 all Signal Corps Schools were moved to Camp Alfred Vail, NJ and instructions in Meteorology were to resume that year, but the necessity to repair equipment damaged in shipment from France after World War 1 delayed the start of the Meteorology classes until Jan. 5, 1920.
	home.ionet.net /~paroales/methis.htm (3139 words)

	Signal Corps Civil War - Beardslee Telegraph Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the Beardslee wasn't a huge success, it was part of the Signal Corps history during the Civil War and it was used.
		Thus, the signal is sent exactly as it was meant to be sent and, theoretically, without error.
		In late 1863 (through 1864) when the Signal Telegraph was taken from the Signal Corps and turned over to the civilian USMT.
	www.beardsleetelegraph.org (1636 words)

	Army Ships -- Signal Corps
		Aside from the Navy Gun Crew, the military contingent on the Silverado was furnished by the Signal Corps, but for operational purposes the vessel was manned by civilians in the employ of the Transportation Corps.
		Signal Corps ships, probably feeling quite exposed and alone on station at sea or anchored in remote island groups, operated as relays for message traffic.
		The most recent mailing states clearly that "my dad's team of Signal Corps technicians and engineers had the job of monitoring and decoding Japanese communications preceding what they thought was to be the invasion of Japan.
	patriot.net /~eastlnd2/army-sc.htm (2443 words)

	Georgia Division Signal Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Signal Corp is not as glamorous as some of the other units, but it was a very important and is much under-represented in today's reenactment communities.
		The Confederate Signal Corps became "the first independent branch of professional signalmen in the history of the world." The Signal Corps was by no means a safe profession.
		He has assembled a great deal of information and history of the Signal Corp and is largely responsible for its success today.
	www.geocities.com /Pipeline/7475/mounted/signalcorps.html (322 words)

	Signal Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Union Signal Corps that saw service in the Civil War never amounted to more than 3,000 officers and men; the Confederate Signal Corps, not so extensive or organized as the Union corps, had only about half that many members.
		When a message is about to be sent, the flagman takes his station upon some elevated object and "calls" the station with which he desires to communicate by waving the flag or torch slowly to and fro.
		Experienced signal officers, however employ many abbreviations by omitting vowels, so that scarecely a single word, unless a very unusual one, is spelled out in full.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /FamousUnits/signalcorps.html (379 words)

	U.S. Army Signal Corps J-38 Telegraph Keys for sale
		The Signal Corps J-38 was a Morse Code training key, included with various Army school systems during World War Two.
		The Signal Electric Manufacturing Company was making telegraph instruments long before WWII, and appears to have been one of the first contractors for this key.
		An early Signal Electric J-38 as shown by the solid brass key frame, with the usual number (1852) cast in the bottom of the frame.
	artifaxbooks.com /fsj38keys.htm (1622 words)

	4th Confederate Engineers, Co. C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Secretary decided to attach it to the Adjutant and Inspector-General's Department, and May 29th, 1862, was issued General Orders No. 40, A. and I. O., creating the Signal Bureau, with Major William Norris, of General Magruder's staff, as the head of it.
		The Signal Corps, as organized, consisted of: one Major Commanding, ten Captains, ten 1st Lieutenants, ten 2nd Lieutenants and twenty Sergeants.
		There were no privates, as men were detailed from the line of the army whenever wanted, and when their services were no longer required they returned to their respective commands.
	home.valornet.com /bcooper/page16.html (367 words)

	Civil War Signal Corps and United States Military Telegraph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The OVCWA donated a Signal Corps canteen and Marine Glasses to the museum to add to the George Round artifact and telescope exhibit.
		Donations of Signal Corps artifacts and documents and a Signal Canteen continue to be made to the Signal Corps Museum located at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
		These donations are a grateful thank-you to those institutions for their support of the OVCWA Signal Corps and their most generous access to their extensive collections and documents.
	www.civilwarsignal.org (1081 words)

	Internet Headquarters, Signal Corps of the Susquehanna, Chesapeake Signal Detachment & Affiliated Units
		The units making up these organizations are dedicated to the accurate historical representation of the role of the Signal Corps of the Federal and Confederate Armies during the American War Between the States (a.k.a.
		SIGNAL CORPS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, U.S.A. Chief Officer: Captain Glenn Ranck, U.S.A. Secretary/Treasurer: Amy Deitman
		SIGNAL CORPS OF THE JAMES, C.S.A./U.S.A. Chief Officer: Captain Scott Dailey
	chesapeakesignals.com (200 words)

	US Army Info Site: Signal Corps
		Birthday: The Signal Corps was authorized as a separate branch of the Army by act of Congress on March 3, 1863.
		However, the Signal Corps dates its existence from June 21, 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, June 27, 1860, to fill an original vacancy."
		Mission Statement: The mission of the Signal Corps is to provide and manage communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces.
	www.us-army-info.com /pages/mos/signal/signal.html (303 words)

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