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Cipher Book #5

Description

40 pages; 16 x 9 cm. Title supplied by cataloger. Glued to inside front cover is a list of cipher holds. Glued to the front fly leaf: Memorandum Index. On verso of page 1: No. 5. Laid inside the book in an envelope labeled: Rules for working Cipher "No. 5". Envelope has printed on it: War Department, Official Business, Assistant Secretary of War. The rules are written on yellow paper, same as EC 49, six pages.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
[1864-1865?]
Call number
EC 60
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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