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Whistling Dixie

Since there is no forum on music or musical instruments, figure I would try here first. There seems to be a lot of people with a TON of knowledge.

During the Revolutionary War, there is shown that whistles (hand held, blown my mouth) that were used to impart commands to the troops. Here is a link I found about this subject: http://www.northernbrigade.org/documents/whistle.html

Question, is there any information, documentation, etc dealing with the use of whistles during the CW to transmit or impart commands to the troops?? Thanks

JIM T

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