History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . ewas made. Several times, however, the relative value of the flags waschanged, and No. 1 became temporarily No. 2, 3, or 4, and so withthe other numbers. In 1859, a system of colored lights for night 1 Congress Doc. No. 20, 23d Congress, 1st session, House of Kepresentatives, Execu-tive. ClKi TUE DISTINGUISHING FLAGS OF DAY SIGNALS NAV
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . ewas made. Several times, however, the relative value of the flags waschanged, and No. 1 became temporarily No. 2, 3, or 4, and so withthe other numbers. In 1859, a system of colored lights for night 1 Congress Doc. No. 20, 23d Congress, 1st session, House of Kepresentatives, Execu-tive. ClKi TUE DISTINGUISHING FLAGS OF DAY SIGNALS NAVY. 1858-66. ^ 1 -—? .. ^—^-^_ :-;- 1. 2. 3. 4-. lillllllllllllllllll jllP Illllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIII 5. 6, 7. 8. signals, invented by B. F. Coston, a gunner in the navy, superseded tlio old-time lan-tern night sig-nals, and in 18G1llieir use was ex-tended to the Unit-ed States armytransports. Aboutthe same time, anew system of tel-egraphic signalwas devised by]\Iajor Albert ,^ using butone flag by day,and a torch or lan-tern by was com-monly used byboth army andnavy throughoutthe war. In No-vember, 1858, theHon. Secretary ofthe Navy issued ageneral order, andthe first on thesubject prescrib-in«f liiihts and fou-. NUMERAL4MEAL U CHURCH signals, and certain rules and regulations tending to prevent collisionsat sea. Agreeably to an act passed March 3, 1857, another set of rulesand regulations was prepared by a board of officers, and submitted toCongress by Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, with his annualreport, Dec. 6, 1858. Like its predecessors, it failed to become a law. One provision of these rules was that when the President of theUnited States visited a vessel of war he should be received upon thedeck by all the officers in full uniform ; the yards were to be manned; 1 Brevet Brigadier-General Albert .1. M3ers is now chief signal officer in charge ofthe signal office and weather reports of the War Department, and is best kno>vn as O
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