Manuscripts

Cipher Book #5

Description: 40 pages; 16 x 9 cm. Title supplied by cataloger. On fly leaf: B 1234. On verso of page 1, in red ink: No. 5. On inside back cover: 83.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1864-1865?
Call number: EC 52
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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