GDG- A Communicator's Guide To the Gettysburg Campaign

[Dennis Lawrence]

At 06:36 PM 5/24/2007, you wrote:
>If anyone would like to visit the area of Jack's Mountain where the AoP
>signal station operated (the exact location is not known), there is a tour
>guide of the Gettysburg Campaign Union signal stations put together by Bill
>Cameron that is posted on the GDG website.  There is a six-stop tour on the
>Gettysburg battlefield, and another six stops as the armies moved toward the
>Potomac river following the battle.  Jack's Mountain is included in the
>latter.


>If anyone would like to visit the area of Jack's Mountain where the AoP
>signal station operated (the exact location is not known), there is a tour
>guide of the Gettysburg Campaign Union signal stations put together by Bill
>Cameron that is posted on the GDG website.  There is a six-stop tour on the
>Gettysburg battlefield, and another six stops as the armies moved toward the
>Potomac river following the battle.  Jack's Mountain is included in the
>latter.

Hello,

Fond memories.  It was the first document we ever put up. When Bill sent me 
the manuscript, I called Bob and said, "This is over 100 pages long!" He 
said "Put it up."  So we did scanned it, proofed it and Bill added a  new 
introduction.

I have followed the tour myself.  As I recall, I could see The Pennsylvania 
Monument from Jack's Mountain with no binoculars.

Enjoy

Dennis

A Communicator's Guide To the Gettysburg Campaign
By Bill Cameron

INTRODUCTION TO THE GETTYSBURG DISCUSSION GROUP EDITION

January 20, 1996

This paper was written in 1988-89 while I was a student at the U.S. Army 
War College. It was written to fulfill a writing requirement for the 
course. During the fall of 1988, I had the good fortune to meet Professor 
Jay Luvaas and Colonel (now Brig. Gen. Retired) Harold Nelson. They were 
the authors of the U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg. 
Jay, who recently retired, is a distinguished historian and had served as 
the War College history "guru" for many years. Col. Nelson was the Army's 
top historian in uniform and he went on to become the Chief of Military 
History and received a promotion to General Officer. After touring 
Gettysburg with Luvaas and Nelson, I approached Col. Nelson and told him I 
wanted to do something on the Signal Corps at Gettysburg. He encouraged me 
to write a signal corps battlefield guide and I spent the next several 
months working on it. I received a lot of help and encouragement from Jay 
Luvaas and Jay and I used the guide to give the signal officer students at 
the War College a tour of the battlefield for the next several years. The 
primary research done for this paper was also used to write a number of 
articles for Gettysburg Magazine.

The original introduction contained a lot of material intended to relate 
the guide to the professional development needs of modern Signal Officers. 
I have removed that for this edition. I also updated the driving 
instructions which were written prior to the change in the flow of traffic 
on Hancock Avenue. Dennis Lawrence, made some excellent changes to make the 
document fit the electronic format. Other than those changes, the document 
is as it was written in 198

http://www.gdg.org/Research/Authored%20Items/signidx.html