April 5, 2024
INSCRIBED WALLET of Gen. Howards CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
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Leather roll-up wallet with personal ink signature identification of Capt. James M. McClintock who served as Major Gen. Oliver Otis Howards Chief Signal Officer. James M. McClintock was twenty-two years of age when he enlisted as a 1st Lieutenant and mustered in on October 3, 1861 as a member of Co. F 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Young McClintock was quickly detailed (1/23/1862) to the elite U. S. SIGNAL CORPS where he would serve with distinction. McClintock was promoted Captain in November of 1863 and remained in the Signal Corps until the Wars close in the spring of 1865. His record of service received extensive coverage in J. Willard Browns The Signal Corps in the War of the Rebellion with no fewer than twenty page references given for McClintock in its index. A distinguished account of the Captain is offered here to include activity of the Vicksburg campaign and McClintocks establishment of the only line of communication between General Grants Headquarters and the key Chickasaw Bluff station at Vicksburg. Special Field Order No. 122 issued September 9, 1864 by order of Major General Oliver Otis Howard, assigns Capt. McClintock as his Chief Signal Officer Headquarters Dept. and Army of the Tennessee which then consisted of the 15th, 16th and 17th Corps. It is said that Capt. McClintock and his little command of elite
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