THE U.S. SIGNAL CORPS IN THE CIVIL WAR
saturday, october 18 @ 9 am - 2 pm new quarter park 1000 lakeshead dr, williamsburg, va
Join the WBA and Living Historian Brian Burtka on Saturday, October 18 from 9 AM - 2 PM in York County’s New Quarter Park for a special event on the U.S. Signal Corps in the Civil War. In an age before radios, phones, and computers, how did armies in the field communicate swiftly over long distances? Learn about signal flags and telegraphy and the U.S. surgeon who invented the signal flag system of wigwagging and became the first U.S. Chief Signal Officer. Then, try your hand at wigwagging and visit a surviving redoubt from the May 1862 Battle of Williamsburg that became a U.S. Signal Station.