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derate batteries while attempting to run past Port Hudson, her signal officer, working, meanwhile, in the maintop. As the running of the batteries was thus found to be too dangerous, the vessel dropped back and the signal officer suggested that he occupy the very tip of the highest mast for his working perch, which was fitted up, one hundred and sixty feet above the water. From this great height it was barely possible to signal over the highland occupied by the foe, and thus maintain Crow's nest—signal tower to the right of Bermuda hundred At headquarters of 14th N. Y. Heavy artillery near Petersburg The Peeble's farm signal tower near Petersburg The signal tower near point of rocks uninterrupted communication and essential cooperation between the fleets of the central and lower Mississippi. The most dramatic use of the Signal Corps was connected with the successful defense of Allatoona, Sherman's reserve depot in which were stored three millions of rations, practic