. Young folk's history of the war for the union . wires had all been cut by the enemy. From the topof Kenesaw, however, his signal officers opened communica-tion with both Eome and Allatoona, and Sherman soon got asignal from the latter place saying Corse is here. He sig-nalled back, Hold the fort. 1 am coming with reinforce-ments; and Corse answered, I will do it. He will holdon, said Sherman; I know the man well. 470 ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. [1864. The method of signalling used during the war was inventedby General Albert J. Myer, who was the head of the SignalService of the United States from 1860
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. Young folk's history of the war for the union . wires had all been cut by the enemy. From the topof Kenesaw, however, his signal officers opened communica-tion with both Eome and Allatoona, and Sherman soon got asignal from the latter place saying Corse is here. He sig-nalled back, Hold the fort. 1 am coming with reinforce-ments; and Corse answered, I will do it. He will holdon, said Sherman; I know the man well. 470 ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. [1864. The method of signalling used during the war was inventedby General Albert J. Myer, who was the head of the SignalService of the United States from 1860 until his death (1880).After the war he had charge of all the weather-stations in theUnited States, where the changes of the weather are watchedand telegraphed to all parts of the country. He was sometimescalled in tlie newspapers Old Probabilities. During the warsignalling was done chiefly by flags in tlie day and by torches bynight. The service was dangerous, for the signal party hadoften to go in advance of the army, in places made dangerous. A Signal Party. by the nearness of the enemy. On Kenesaw Mountain Sher-man was signalling right over the heads of the enemy, whowere between him and Allatoona. The signal-party may bemade up of only three men, an officer, a flagman, and anorderly to hold the horses, as shown in the picture. The officerwatches and reads the signals through a telescope, which herests on the hilt of his sword. The flagman has on his horse(the black one) a case to carry the staff of his flag or torch in;and the orderly carries back of liis saddle (see the white horse)a can of camphene or turpentine to fill the torch with. The 1864.] SIGNALLING. 471 flag may be of any color or shape which can be seen well at adistance. Now suj^pose there is another signal party, ten or fifteenmiles away, on some high place within sight of the first party, and that the latter wishes to send a message. The flagmanholds liis flag upright, as in position 1 of the picture below, w