“WARE, WILLIAM, 1st lieut. Glenwood, Fla. (1st lieut. 20th Ill. Vols.) Detailed Jan., 1863, Memphis, Tenn., Dept. of
Tenn.; May, 1864, Nashville, Tenn.; June 2, Gen. Sherman’s hdqrs.; July 15, com. 1st lieut. S.C., to date March 3, 1863; Dec. 13, Rice Mill sta., Ga; mustered out Sept. 1, 1865.”
Page 509
“Upon the arrival of Gen. Grant at Memphis it was ascertained that he had never received the order of the War Department directing a detail of officers and men for signal duty. Upon a certified copy furnished by Capt. Howard, however, he acted, after a visit to Generals Sherman and McClernand, and Admiral Porter. Jan. 22, 1863, he issued Special Orders No. 22, making the details. It should be mentioned, en passant, that as late as May 19th Capt. Howard was in correspondence with one of Gen. Grant’s subordinates, endeavoring to secure compliance with this order.
The officers ultimately detailed were Capt. Lucius M. Rose, and Lieutenants S. S. Sample, W. C. Magner, J. P. Sampson, W. H. Sherfy, Isaac H. Walker, William Ware, Cornelius Conard, W. A. Harris, William A. Pigman, Cyrus M. Roberts, James R. Dunlap, J. H. Frerichs, Abel A. Franklin, Henry Groenendyke. Gustav B. Gryden, Thomas M. Guy, Edmund Higbee, W. H. B. Hoyt, Charles H. Hurt, Frank A. Irvin, T. C. Morris, D. R. Plyley, E. A. Snyder, Matthew Whillden, William White, James W. Wilson, T. C. Withers, and J. C. Hays, making with the officers previously mentioned and Capt. Harvey and Lieut. Sizer, who had reported from Washington, a party of forty-five officers.”
Page 522
“April 24th, the Chief Signal Officer received a copy of War Department order directing Sergt. Emil Burchard to report to him from Washington with one hundred recruits enlisted for the Signal Corps, and Lieut. Ware was sent to Nashville to arm and mount them when they should reach that point en route.
May 1st, when orders were received to march to Chattanooga in preparation for the campaign against Atlanta, the detachment was distributed as follows: With the 15th Army Corps, Lieut. McNary in charge, Lieutenants Sample, Frerichs, and Edge; 16th Army Corps, Capt. McClintock in charge, Lieutenants Sherfy, Magner and Wilson; 17th Army Corps (at Cairo, Ill., en route), Capt. L. M. Rose in charge, Lieutenants Conard, Dunlap, and Stickney; Lieut. Sampson at Huntsville, in charge of the signal camp of instruction, with the five officers before mentioned, and Lieut. Ware at Nashville awaiting the recruits ordered from Washington. The whole, however, the whole regarded as a single detachment under the immediate command of Capt. Howard.”
Page 526
“On the 2d, Lieutenants Sampson and Ware reported from Huntsville, bringing with them the five officers detailed in April, Sergt. Burchard and ninety-eight recruits. On the following day, Lieutenants Worley, Allen, Weirick, and Fish were assigned to the loth Army Corps, and Lieut. Edge and Lieut. Shellabarger to the 17th Corps, with Capt. McClintock. Lieutenants Sampson and Ware remained with me at army headquarters, Lieut. Sampson as adjutant and Lieut. Ware as quartermaster and ordnance officer, relieving every other officer of property accountability.”
Page 535
“August 10th, Lieut. Magner, a most reliable officer, resigned from the army to enter the ministry, to fight the universal enemy. On the 15th, his commission as 1st lieutenant in the Signal Corps was received from Washington, together with those of Lieutenants Sampson, Sherfy, Stickney, and Ware. Lieut. Sampson had meantime rejoined us from his sick-leave.”
Page 561
“While on duty at the station, the artillery’, in order to attract the attention of our fleet, should it be in the vicinity of the Ogeechee, also to do what harm it could to the fort, fired a 20-pound shot at short intervals at Fort McAllister during the day. At the same time the garrison colors were kept flying from the staff, erected on the mill, to draw the fire of the fort. During the night, at each shot from the gun, they discharged a rocket from the station. All this demonstration elicited no response from their friends at sea, at least none that they recognized. About 11 o’clock on the morning of the 13th, Gen. Sherman and staff, accompanied by Gen. Howard and staff, arrived at the mill for the purpose of witnessing the attack upon Fort McAllister by (Gen. Hazen with the Second Division of the 15th Corps. During the forenoon, there were many arrivals of officers from the Army of the Tennessee for the same purpose. Among them were Generals Logan, Corse, Strong, Hickenlooper, and other officers lower in rank. Of signal officers present during the assault, there were Capt. Bachtell, (Jen. Sherman’s chief signal officer, Capt. A. S. Cole, Lieutenants William Ware and J. P. Sampson. There were other officers present and also quite a number of signalmen. ”
Page 563
“Lieut. William Ware from the attic room below was called to take charge of the station, and other messages were sent to the tug, and some to Gen. Hazen. Capt. McClintock writes as follows, in describing the scene at the rice-mill after the assault:—”
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