Too bad we don’t have an agency dedicated to code breaking. Ohe wait, we do. But it’s too busy missing terrorists, chasing Snowden for explaining their illegal domestic spying, and would be thrown into paralytic shock that something from the 1860s might not be politically correct.
The government has cash to study lesbianism in Oregon bullfrog, but something like this, they are suddenly budget hawks.
NO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE JOKES
Pleaze
Back then, gentlemen did not read each other’s mail
So they’re “owned” by an organization in Kaliforniastan
Why crowd source it? If you have they key, give it to one programmer with a few good servers.
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I think one of them said something about Laboulaye’s Lady.
I’ve decoded most the telegrams through 1862:
“Attack. Attack! Why is no one attacking??? We have more of everything than they do. Attack ‘em where they ain’t if you’re afraid of casualties! We have a Navy, too! USE IT! KEEP USING IT! ATTACK!!!—A. Lincoln.”
Thanks for this. Looking into it right now.
sounds really goofy to me. They never were decoded?
how could you send some one a message if you weren’t sure they would be able to decode it so they could respond best?
They must have had huge communication issues during the war.