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- Title
- Cipher Book #5
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1864
1865
1866
- Contributing Institution
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Huntington Library
- Collection
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Thomas T. Eckert Papers
- Rights Information
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- Description
- Title supplied by cataloger. Inside front cover was an index in pencil, either erased or worn off. Written on front fly leaf: C. A. Keefer, cypher clerk, Vicksburg Miss, 1866, Resigned June 1st. No. 5. F. A. H. Sanborn, Cipher Clerk, Vicksburg, Miss, Appointed June 16/66, Relieved Sept. 1", 1866. Ms. page numbers. "1864" and "1865" are included on p. 4, leading to the cataloger's suggested date.
- Extent
- 40, [12] pages ; 16x9 cm
- Identifier
- mssEC 62
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll11/id/1472
- Subject
- Cryptography--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Cryptography--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications--Sources
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cryptography
United States. Military Telegraph Corps
- Source
- Thomas T. Eckert papers, 1861-1877 (bulk 1862-1867)
Thomas T. Eckert Papers, Decoding the Civil War
- Provenance
- Purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Seth Kaller, January 21, 2012.
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