From the website RealClearLife.com: "A California library wants your help in sifting through, transcribing,
and decoding thousands of Civil War–era documents. The Huntington
Library has launched a crowdsourcing project to attempt to crack 15,971
Civil War–era telegrams—including 100 to and from President Abraham
Lincoln himself. The telegrams zigzagged between the president, his
Cabinet, and officers of the Union Army. Approximately one-third were
written in unbreakable code, one so complex that the Confederate Army
was never able to crack it." Read the full story at Library Wants Your Help Decoding Thousands of Civil War Telegrams
Neat! I'm going to check this out...
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. I have transcribed several pages now and it is very interesting. Different from transcribing documents for genealogy. The code book pages I've done show the code would have been very difficult to break because they used word substitution codes. It looks like every very unit had a unique code.
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