Stager, Anson, 1825-1885 Cipher for telegraphic correspondence

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GLC#
GLC06233
Type
Documents
Date
1861-1865 circa
Author/Creator
Stager, Anson, 1825-1885
Title
Cipher for telegraphic correspondence
Place Written
Various Places
Pagination
28 p. : docket ; Height: 14.6 cm, Width: 9 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Printed book with manuscript annotations indicating classified code words. The book lists code words for telegraphs, the actual words they correspond to are written by hand. Book was printed for the years "1861 & '62" but contains note on the cover page reading "O.C. Hatton, Cumb Gap Tenn Feb 20th 1865." Annotations in the text could be from any time between the book's publishing and the end of the war. Book printed by Stenger, annotations possibly by Hatton.

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