Good Intelligence; Bad Application?

[whitworth]

Does anyone on this site know that Longstreet tried to obscure his movement on July 2nd, causing a delay, because he knew the Army of the Potomac would have signal corps with telescopes watching for any movement against Cemetery Ridge?
You know about telescopes in the Civil War?

[samgrant]

Or at least, binoculars!

This on the Signal Corps: http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/30-17/S_1.htm

This on the Signal Corps observation and Longstreet's countermarch: http://scard.buffnet.net/gburgsignals/stop02.html

Here's one about the optical tools of the Signal Corps, you might like to go back to the home page http://www.civilwarsignal.org/signal...signalkit.html of this site:

http://www.civilwarsignal.org/equipm...lequipment.htm

[ole]

Thanks for the link, Sam. It was a good read and dispelled quite a bit of confusion about this 'n that. Forgot about the signallers being the reasons for the countermarch.
Ole