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Still later, on 13 September 1913, George Carr Round, who had been a signal officer during the Civil War and was then president of the United States Veteran Signal Corps Association, visited Kennesaw Mountain while on a Civil War jubilee campaign in Georgia and Tennessee. There, on the site of the old signal station, from whence went out, as he put it, "the most important signal message ever sent in the history of war," he evidently repeated the message and had one of his companions sound "the trumpet of the Jubilee." He used what may have been Frankenberry's old signal flag (after borrowing it from the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania), perhaps the very one that got Corse on the road to Allatoona or that encouraged the garrison to hang on. Round also had with him a small flag that he had used while standing on the dome of the state capitol at Raleigh, North Carolina, and sending what he believed was the last message of the Civil War: "Peace on earth, good will to men." When he transmitted some of the old messages with the Allatoona