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RECONSTRUCTING AN ILL-FATED ARCTIC EXPEDITION
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Unrelievedly grim is the phrase for "Ghosts of Cape Sabine,"
Leonard F. Guttridge's account of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition to
the Arctic commanded by Adolphus Greely of Newburyport. Twenty-five
men, mostly from the Army Signal Corps, sailed on the 1881 venture;
three years later, six returned. The incidents of the voyage
included cannibalism, near mutiny, bureaucratic wrangling, and the
execution by firing squad of a private caught stealing from the
ship's stores.
The expedition...
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CHILLING `GHOSTS' RECOUNTS DEADLY ARCTIC ORDEAL OF GREELY EXPEDITION.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Unrelievedly grim describes ``Ghosts of Cape Sabine Leonard F. Guttridge's account of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition to the Arctic commanded by Adolphus Greely. Twenty-five men, mostly from the Army Signal Corps, sailed on the 1881 venture; three years later, six returned. Incidents on the voyage
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RECONSTRUCTING AN ILL-FATED ARCTIC EXPEDITION
The Boston Globe
; Unrelievedly grim is the phrase for "Ghosts of Cape Sabine," Leonard F. Guttridge's account of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition to the Arctic commanded by Adolphus Greely of Newburyport. Twenty-five men, mostly from the Army Signal Corps, sailed on the 1881 venture; three years later, six returned.
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`Ghosts' is haunting tale of disastrous Arctic trip
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; `Ghosts' is haunting tale of disastrous Arctic trip By ROBERT TAYLOR The Boston Globe Sunday, February 6, 2000 Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition. By Leonard F. Guttridge. Putnam. 354 pages. $27.95. Unrelievedly grim is the phrase for "Ghosts of Cape Sabine,"
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The post-war signal corps
Military Images
; Unlike some other war-time creations, the Signal Corps proved so useful to the U.S. Army that it was maintained after the Civil War ended. In July 1866 Congress set up the Corps under a Chief Signal Officer of the Army, a colonel, with six officers and a hundred enlisted men in the Corps. As time
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Stories of the Signal Corps
Military Images
; The idea of specialized troops whose job it would be to transmit information between military units at long distances from each other occurred to a doctor, Albert Myer, who was interested in communicating with the deaf. In 1851 his interest turned to military and naval signals, and he got a U.S.
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Signal Corps OCS
The Officer
; The U.S. Army Signal Corps Association is a nonprofit organization of graduates of Signal Corps Officer Candidate Schools of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam Conflict. The association is dedicated to the building of camaraderie among the OCS graduates who share this unique Signal
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The last forgiven
Military Images
; This author has long believed that the men of the Signal Corps are among the least-known heroes of the American Civil War. The Signal Corps, of course, was not really a corps at all until 1863 when it was officially created, and the acting signal officers who had so successfully blundered their way
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William C. Nash of the C.S. Signal Corps
Military Images
; Little is known of Private William C. Nash, a member of Co. A, Confederate Signal Corps. He must have been a mere boy when he enlisted, as his father, William H., was only 32 years old when he enlisted in the 3rd Virginia Infantry in 1861. Charles Taylor, another Confederate Signal Corps veteran,
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Signal system creators split North, South.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Thomas J. Ryan, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Museums at Fort Gordon, Ga., and Fort Meade, Md., contain collections based on technologies that had an important role to play in the American Civil War. These museums portray the history of military communications and cryptology, two distinct
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Wright military training at College Park in 1909.
Air Power History
; ... a field had not yet been secured. This news was evidently a relief to the Post Commander ... Europe with sister Katharine, Wilbur made news in New York with another Wright plane ... College Park, a topic that had dominated the news for the past few months. However, it had ...
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