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United States Military Telegraph Ledgers (EC 1-21)

Description
The collection is made up mostly of items related to Eckert's duties as part of the United States Military Telegraph Office during the Civil War, including 35 volumes of telegram ledgers containing roughly 16,000 telegrams from 1862 to 1866. These include telegrams both still in code and decoded (the sent messages are ciphered; the received telegrams are mostly decoded).
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1861-1877.
Call number
mssEC 1-76
Creator
Eckert, Thomas Thompson (1825-1910)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Seth Kaller, January 21, 2012.
Associated people
Dana, Charles A. (1819-1897.)
Dix, John A. (1798-1879.)
Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885.)
Halleck, H. W. (1815-1872.)
Lincoln, Abraham, (1809-1865.)
McClellan, George B. (1826-1885.)
Pinkerton, Allan, (1819-1884.)
Scott, Thomas Alexander, (1823-1881.)
Sherman, William T. (1820-1891.)
Stager, Anson, (1825-1885.)
Stanton, Edwin M. (1814-1869.)
Associated organizations
United States.
United States.
United States Military Telegraph.
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