As Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman marched toward Savannah, Ga. in December of 1864, the Signal Corps was there.

Under Sherman’s direction, Capt. James McClintock and wigwag operator Pvt. Samuel Magner provided command and control to Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen as he led the attack on Fort McAllister, Ga. It was a pivotal fight in the Civil War.

This scene will be the subject of an oil painting by Don Troiani which members of the national Signal Corps Regimental Association will present this summer to the Signal Corps on behalf of its 150th anniversary.

“Our mission is to support the Signal Corps and its Soldiers,” said Craig Zimmerman, Fort Gordon’s director of the Office Chief of Signal and the executive officer nationally for SCRA.

Zimmerman said SCRA’s membership wanted to do something to provide a significant and lasting tribute of the regiment’s sesquicentennial year so they commissioned Troiani to paint this particular work.

Troiani is known for the dramatic quality of his paintings as well as the details he puts in them. Not only is he a painter, but he is a military collector and researcher with more than 2,500 volumes in his personal military library.

Because of this, he has been a consultant to Hollywood for Civil War uniforms in the film Cold Mountain and the miniseries The American Revolution.

His artwork is represented in the collections of The Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, Ga., Smithsonian Magazine and the Smithsonian’s Museum of History and Technology, McGraw-Hill, the National Park Service, Gettysburg NHP, Ft. Necessity NHP, Ft. Scott NHP, Guilford Court House NHP, Saratoga NHP, Boston NHP, Cowpens NHP, St. Martins Press, Petersburg NHP, Morristown NHP and U.S. Army War College, according to his website, www.historicalprints.com.

Prints of the work will be sold to cover the cost of commissioning the painting which will hang in the Signal Museum once it has been presented to the Signal Corps.

Zimmerman said pre-orders are being taken for the prints. They cost $175 for 3-year or greater SCRA members and $225 for non-members. Those who sign up for a 3-year membership will be eligible for the discount.

For more information, visit www.signalcorps.org.