Re: GDG- GDG: Signal Corps and Buford / A.B. Jerome

[Eric J. Wittenberg]

Melanie,

I think that's a very reasonable assumption.

Have you consulted J. Willard Brown's history of the Signal Corps in  
the Civil War?  If not, I highly recommend that you do so.  It was  
reprinted a number of years ago by Stan Clark, and is available  
(albeit pretty expensive):  http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Corps-War- 
Rebellion/dp/0935523545/sr=8-3/qid=1163981797/ 
ref=sr_1_3/102-7498327-9553764?ie=UTF8&s=books

  Good luck with it.

Eric

On Nov 19, 2006, at 6:54 PM, GerlDoc at aol.com wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Eric,
>
> Thank you very much for your reply.   Yes, Stone was a Private, on  
> detached
> duty from the 5th Connecticut Infantry.   He served under Jerome  
> during the
> Battle of Yorktown on the gunboat "Aroostook", and also at  
> Fredericksburg on the
> "corn bluff".   I do not know, and doubt if anyone knows, who the  
> other
> flagmen were that were assigned to Jerome's command that day.    
> Perhaps the
> information is in the records of the S.C. in the National Archives.  
> Maybe some day
> I'll have to time to go there and research it!
>
> If Jerome was indeed the only Signal Officer assigned to Buford,  
> then Stone
> must have been working under him directly, as one of his flagmen/ 
> couriers.
>
> Following Gettysburg, I have determined that Stone must have been  
> with Brig.
> Gen. Merritt, head of the Reserve Brigade of Cavalry under Buford,  
> because he
> was captured on June 21 at Manassas Gap, and from the O.R. it was  
> Merritt's
> troops that were engaged there that day.   Do you think that I am  
> correct in
> this assumption?
>
> Thanks!
> Melanie
>                     
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