. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . used to representnames of persons, places, dates, words andphrases. The blind words may also be readilyfound. Captain Samuel H. Beckwith, General Grantscipher-operator during his four campaigns, wasan expert with the pen, as will be seen from thespecimen of his work shown by the facsimile oftwo pages of his cipher-book, which is truly awork of art. It was his habit all through the warto recopy with a pen the contents of each newedition of our cipher-book as fast as supplied to
. Lincoln in the telegraph office : recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War . used to representnames of persons, places, dates, words andphrases. The blind words may also be readilyfound. Captain Samuel H. Beckwith, General Grantscipher-operator during his four campaigns, wasan expert with the pen, as will be seen from thespecimen of his work shown by the facsimile oftwo pages of his cipher-book, which is truly awork of art. It was his habit all through the warto recopy with a pen the contents of each newedition of our cipher-book as fast as supplied tohim, and his written copy would be so embellished 56 CIPHER-CODES AND MESSAGES with extraneous matter as to make it not onlyattractive from a chirographical point of view, UMk^ fi i. J\J // MOL. i TTT: RlO^K. ■ A-, • ,. • 4 \.: A> tl U ( ■ VI ■^n.^ ■ 2 f r\ ill /7(>ri\s e / . r^r 1 ^:^//. rf &-6 ■ ... ^ 1, ...,.., . /,,,•///■// /.-. //< ^/./j/.,.- i /..,/.// Ir- r^ZO/tt //;-a;v 1 ■ / /;. ../ 1 ;;.:•:.•.. /.•/ /fo-^ry- 7/ </ T )i 1 l/en tA p r /;■- , 1 ,.,,.-:■. Facsimile of two pages of the last cipher-book in the War Department series, printed for the first time in Century Magazine for June, 1907 The original is in the handwriting of Captain Samuel H. Beckwith, General Grants cipher-operator, and was used in transmitting Lincolns telegrams to and from City Point and Richmond, March 25 to April 8, 1865 but also wholly unintelligible to any one but ashrewd cipher-operator. By the use of ink of 57 LINCOLN IN THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE various colors he combined two or three differentcodes in one book. The one from which these two pages weretaken was the last in the War Department series,having been sent to Beck with on March 23, 1865,and it was this cipher that he used for Lincolnsdespatches during his two weeks stay at CityPoint and Richmond, March 25 to April 8, 1865,after which time none of the Presidents tele-grams was put in cipher.
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