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

[jack]

Jim,

We know that Jerome had multiple enlisted with him. Buford put him up in the 
Cupola. When Jerome sighted  Heth, he summoned Buford by sending a dispatch 
through one of his Couriers. He may have been assigned couriers by Buford 
(or corp), but he had couriers. I think Jerome was on temporay duty himself. 
the Signal Corp was just being organized.

Regards,

Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cameron" <cameron2 at optonline.net>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: GDG- GDG:  Signal Corps and Buford / A.B. Jerome


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> << While he doesn't mention the specific assignments, we all know that 
> Jerome
> was with Buford that day.   I don't know - perhaps Gloskoski and Dismore 
> were
> each assigned to the other two divisions of cavalry - but that is pure
> speculation on my part.    I have not been able to substantiate this in 
> the O.R. so
> far.
> We also know that Buford's report mentions only one name- Jerome - with
> regards to the contribution made by the Signal Corps for his division. 
> In
> addition, Jerome himself states that he was the only Signal Officer on the 
> field at
> the time.   I seem to recall another citation indicating that Jerome was 
> by
> himself, but I can't recall it right now...
> I think that unless/until there is definite proof of another Signal 
> Officer
> being with Jerome while he was with Buford (which is what I was looking 
> for
> when I posted this query), then I will continue to believe that he was the 
> only
> one present from the S.C. with Buford.   Perhaps Steve Rauch or Col. 
> Cameron
> will have some information about this... >>
>
>
> Jerome with Buford and the other two with one or another of the other two 
> cavalry divisions makes sense, although Norton didn't bother to elaborate. 
> His report indicates that he assigned signal officers to Corps 
> headquarters. He quite probably left it to the respective Corps commanders 
> to use them as they saw fit.  It's very possible that Pleasonton would 
> have decided that his relatively wider-ranging cavalry divisions needed 
> signal detachments of their own, and so detailed the signal officers he'd 
> been assigned.
>
> I haven't seen anything to indicate that any signal officers other than 
> Jerome were with Burford's division.  But I think it almost certain he did 
> have a detail of enlisted signal men along with him, even if they were not 
> specifically mentioned in the reports.  He wouldn't have been able to set 
> up effective signal operations without them.
>
> Jim Cameron
>
>
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