Grandfather's tales of the AD-Vance, 2006.

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Grandfather's tales of the AD-Vance, 2006.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77130683

The volume contains original stories, letters, and official records writtien down or collected by John Baptist Smith of the Independent Signal Corps. Most concern his invention of the flash light method of night signalling, and his service as signal officer on the blockade runner Ad-Vance, and officer in charge of the Signal Lines running from Lee's headquarters at Petersburg, 1864. Collected stories include his own "The battle that rrevolutionized naval warfare," "The saucy blockade runner," and "The stranded blockade runner," "Running the blockade on the "Ad-Vance" by Moses D. Hoge.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Confederate States of America. Army. Independent Signal Corps.

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Hoge, Moses D. (Moses Drury), 1818-1899

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Presbyterian minister; Civil War blockade runner; orator at the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson statue, Monument Avenue, Richmond. From the description of Letter to J.D.K. Sleight, 1870 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52779251 Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., 10 June 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth Stoddert. He graduated from United States Military Academy and taught there. He taught at Hampden- Sydney College and...

Ad-Vance (Steamship)

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Barksdale, Anne William Goodwin Smith.

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Confederate Army signal officer. From the description of Grandfather's tales of the AD-Vance, 2006. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 77130683 ...

Merrimack (Frigate)

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Smith, John Baptist, 1843-1923

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