The United States Senate eventually approved the appropriations bill, over the objections of Jefferson Davis, now Senator from Mississippi, and President James Buchanan signed it into law on June 21, 1860, the date now celebrated as the birthday of the modern U.S. Army Signal Corps.
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Immediately before the war, Myer was assigned to the Department of New Mexico to test his signals in the field during a campaign against the Navajos.
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