Signal Hill Monument in Manassas Park, VA
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N 38° 45.191 W 077° 26.300
18S E 288114 N 4292210
A monument to mark America's first battlefield telecommunication.
Waymark Code: WM1J97
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 05/17/2007
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8:45 A.M. July 21st 1861 Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run). From this hilltop Capt. E.P. Alexander, CSA, sent America’s first battlefield telecommunication: Look out for your left, you are turned. This short message to Col. Evans warning him of Brig. Gen. McDowell’s flank march helped turn an impending defeat into a crucial victory, thereby securing for the signal corps a permanent place in the ranks of modern armies.
In memory of America’s Confederate signal veterans; the first to raise in battle “the bonnie white flag that bears the crimson square.”
Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/2000
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Signal Corps Regimental Association, U.S. Army.
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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