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

[James Cameron]

<< Nonetheless, if that was true, then Meade may have made the decision to 
hold
his telegraph capability in readiness for potential use at the PCL, knowing
that he had an equally good if not better system to use to fight a battle at
Gettysburg -- that being his highly capable Signal Corps flag comms.  >>

I think that while a commander would have wanted telegraph communications to 
and from army headquarters, if at all possible, once the army was 
concentrated at a battlefield it wasn't common practice at the time to lay 
in telegraph lines from army HQ to the various Corps HQ's on the line of 
battle.  Many of the HQ's were almost with shouting distance anyway, and the 
rest within easy messenger or visual signal range.

Jim Cameron