. Washington during war time, a series of papers showing the military, political, and social phases during 1861 to 1865; official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic . rps on that occasion I am satisfied wewould have lost the garrison at Alatoona, a most valuabledepository of provisions there, which was worth to us and thecountry more than the aggregate expense of the whole SignalCorps for one year. Again, the late Brigadier-General Myer, as Chief SignalOfficer, has said of the Signal Corps that it : Opened the first direct communication from the up
. Washington during war time, a series of papers showing the military, political, and social phases during 1861 to 1865; official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic . rps on that occasion I am satisfied wewould have lost the garrison at Alatoona, a most valuabledepository of provisions there, which was worth to us and thecountry more than the aggregate expense of the whole SignalCorps for one year. Again, the late Brigadier-General Myer, as Chief SignalOfficer, has said of the Signal Corps that it : Opened the first direct communication from the upper withthe lower Mississippi when Rear-Admiral Farragut, runningpast the batteries of Port Hudson, found himself after theperilous passage cut off above that fortress from the vessels ofhis fleet, which could not follow him and were lying in thestream below. [ i43 ] WASHINGTON DURING WAR TIME There is not, perhaps, on record, a feat of aerial telegraphysuch as that thus and then performed, when from the topmastof the flagship of the Admiral, lying above the fort, messageswere regularly transmitted past the guns of the fortress to astation on the mast-top of the war vessel Richmond five or sixmiles r 144 ]
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