. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . and well; also their cousin thegreatest known general, our illustrious U. S. Grant, whoserved in both Mexican and Civil wars. Robert Q. Grant,son of Noah, nephew of L. George Grant of the Ringgoldcavalry, nephew also of the three AYiekerham brothers ofthat organization, served eight years in the Signal Corpsof the U. S. Army. During his connection with that armof service, Generals Wm. B. Hazen and A. AY Greeley, theArctic e
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . and well; also their cousin thegreatest known general, our illustrious U. S. Grant, whoserved in both Mexican and Civil wars. Robert Q. Grant,son of Noah, nephew of L. George Grant of the Ringgoldcavalry, nephew also of the three AYiekerham brothers ofthat organization, served eight years in the Signal Corpsof the U. S. Army. During his connection with that armof service, Generals Wm. B. Hazen and A. AY Greeley, theArctic explorer, were in command. Of the eight years be-ginning in 1883 and ending in 1S91 six were devoted toscientific work and two to active military service in thesouthwest. During the Apache campaign in 1885 and 1886Robert Q. was stationed at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, andhad charge of the military telegraph lines in the southernpart of the state. Much of his time was also given to themaintenance and supervision of Signal Stations located THE GRANT FAMILY 313 on mountain peaks and points of vantage where the build-ing of telegraph lines was not practicable. By means of. ROBERT Q. GRANT, SIGNAL CORPS, U. S. A. the signal stations, lines of communication were establishedthroughout Arizona and New Mexico. Signalling was doneby means of flags, torches and heliographs. The last named 314 .fc^WUUlJS fcSTUKllilS instrument consists principally of a mirror with a cut-off,permitting the reflection of the suns rays to be trans-mitted to another station in a series of dots and dashes,transmitting- messages as readily as though telegraphed inthe ordinary way. During this campaign a new recordfor long distance heliographing was established, two sta-tions one hundred and twenty-five miles apart being ableto talk to each other with comparative ease. Geronimoand his band of renegade Apaches were responsible for thedestruction of much property and the lives of many settlers-before they were subdued
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