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46 and October 1864, whereas the muster rolls for those two months give Atlanta]; and Proceedings of the Reunions Held in 1900 by the Association of Survivors Seventh Regiment Illinois Veteran Infantry Volunteers Held at Chicago and Springfield, III. [hereafter cited as Seventh Illinois Reunion Proceedings, with particular year added] (1901), pp. 28–29.

6. OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 75.

7. Message from Sherman to Commanding Officers at Allatoona, Kingston, and Rome, 4 October 1864 (OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 75). On Corse's instructions and actions prior to the Battle of Allatoona, see his report to Dayton, Sherman's aide-de-camp, 27 October 1864 (OR, vol. 39, pt. 1, pp. 761–762) and the following messages (OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, pp. 8–9, 31, 53): Sherman to Corse, 1 October 1864; Sherman to Smith, 1 October 1864; Corse to Sherman, 1 October 1864; Corse to Smith, 2 October 1864; Corse to Sherman, 2 October 1864; Sherman to Corse, 3 October 1864; and Sherman to Commanding Officer, Allatoona [Tourtellotte], 3 October 1864.

8. Frankenberry, "Visiting War Scenes."

9. Photographic descriptions and historical statement by George Carr Round, together with General Order No. 1, United States Veteran Signal Corps Association, 21 July 1914 (George Carr Round papers, in possession of Round's daughter, Mrs. Emily R. Lewis, Manassas, Virginia). See also "Tattered Signal Flags Are Used," Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.), 12 October 1913, p. 18. Claybaugh (p. 307) claims that the flag pictured in his Hold the Fort—I am Coming is the one that Frankenberry gave to the adjutant general of Pennsylvania. Compare Claybaugh's illustration with the picture of the flag that accompanies Frankenberry's "Visiting War Scenes" and with the one of the large flag which Round borrowed from the Pennsylvania authorities and subsequently returned. Efforts by the author to locate the flag in Harrisburg have been unsuccessful. See J. Willard Brown, The Signal Corps, p. 116, for colored illustrations of United States Army signal flags of the Civil War period. There are some authentic Union signal flags from that conflict among the Myer memorabilia in the Signal Corps Museum, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

10. OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 113.

11. Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet, pp. 599–600.

12. Samuel G. French, Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French (1901); and letter from French to Julius L. Brown, 20 June 1901, in Joseph M. Brown papers, Atlanta Historical Society. [A copy of French's letter was obtained through the kindness of Fred E. Brown of Houston, Texas.]

13. Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, Special Field Order 86 (OR, vol 39, pt. 1, pp. 771–772).

14. The West story is from an item by J. L. Eby, a veteran of the 7th Illinois, in National Tribune (no date) as reprinted in the Seventh Illinois Reunion Proceedings (1903), p. 32. On Myer's brevet commission, see letter from J. C. Kelton to Myer, 16 June 1868, enclosing commission of 10 June 1868 (rank dating from 13 March 1865) (Albert James Myer papers, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey); and Paul J. Scheips, "Union Signal Communications: Innovation and Conflict," Civil War History, vol. 9 (December 1963), pp. 414–415.

15. "The Flag that Talks" was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine,