Extracts from the evidence before the Commission Upon Certain Bureaus Referring to the Signal Corps, Washington City, 1886
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
- Greely, Adolphus Washington
- Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
- Hazen, William Babcock, 1830-1887
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- See more items in
- William Babcock Hazen Papers
- William Babcock Hazen Papers / Series 6: Publications
- Sponsor
- Digitization of this collection was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.
- Container
- Box 7, Folder 23
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- William B. Hazen Papers, 1855-1909, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
- Collection Rights
- Rights situation uncertain, but most of the collection is probably in the public domain due to its age.
- Scope and Contents note
- This is the system of volunteer observers that was organized by the Smithsonian in 1850 and of which General Myer took charge in 1873. Four appendixes of which the last two deal with the future of the Signal Corps. Appendix III Letter from the Chief Signal Officer to Hon. W.B. Allison, ... detailed statement of the management of the Signal Service and the advantages which the military system affords ... . And Appendix IV Letter of Secretary Lincoln to Congress Opposing A Permanent Military Organization for the Signal Corps.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513405047-1503513405099-3
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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