UNIT INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
The Civil War Signal Corps is a subject of which little has been known by the public. This is even more the case with
the "Flying Telegraph", "Signal Telegraph", "Field Telegraph", "Beardslee telegraph","Coffee Grinder Telegraph",
or the civilian controlled and operated United States Military Telegraph. Taken together,
these represent much of what was the communication technology of the American Civil War.
The Ohio Valley Civil War Association (Civil War Signal Corps Detachment) continues to develop this suite of sites
on these aspects of the technology of the Civil War to provide the necessary knowledge and
training for it's members who portray, often in addition to the Civil War Signal Corps and military telegraph functions,
regular infantry, volunteer infantry, artillery, calvary,
sanitary commission, medical
U.S. Army signal officers, flag operators, torch operators, Beardslee telegraph operators, Morse male and female telegraphers,
linemen, mess sergeants,
and sharpshooters. Anyone interested in any of these Civil War
activities are invited to contact on the OVCWA links or to the OVCWA.
The direct telegraph (USMT) contact for OVCWA in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky is Ted Wagner.
Your general
contact for U.S. Army Civil War Signal Corps and Military Telegraph (USMT) operations is Dave Bock.
Notice: to become a Signalman, you must first qualify in
Artillery or Infantry and then pass the School of Instruction course.
"Soldiers First."
Training is always available at our events.
For U.S Signal Corps Beardslee operations
in and around northern Georgia and through the south, contact the U.S. Signal Corps
Museum, Kennesaw Mountain NBF or Stones River (Jim Lewis) NBF.