signal-officer

Indeed, his indifferent attack was not at all worthy the excellent soldiers he commanded, and when I learned that it was his intention to withdraw from the enemy's front, and this, too, on the indefinite report of a signal-officer that a

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The signal-officer at Cobb's Hill reported, at half-past eleven A.M., that a cavalry column had passed that point from Richmond towards Petersburg, taking forty minutes to pass.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Leaving our horses behind the stacks of rice-straw, we all got on the roof of a shed attached to the mill, wherefrom I could communicate with the signal-officer above, and at the same time look out toward Ossabaw Sound, and across the Ogeechee River at Fort McAllister.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The signal-officer reported that by studying the enemy's signals he had learned the key, and that he could read their signals.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Fort McAllister was taken, and the good news was instantly sent by the signal-officer to our navy friends on the approaching gunboat, for a point of timber had shut out Fort McAllister from their view, and they had not seen the action at all, but must have heard the cannonading.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

This betokened the approach of Hazen's division, which had been anxiously expected, and soon thereafter the signal-officer discovered about three miles above the fort a signal-flag, with which he conversed, and found it to belong to General Hazen, who was preparing to assault the fort, and wanted to know if I were there.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The signal-officer had built a platform on the ridge-pole of the rice-mill.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Indeed, his indifferent attack was not at all worthy the excellent soldiers he commanded, and when I learned that it was his intention to withdraw from the enemy's front, and this, too, on the indefinite report of a signal-officer that a

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

It was his signal-officer who thought it out first.

The U-boat hunters 1912

He went on deck just as his signal-officer came to tell him the ship was ashore.

The U-boat hunters 1912