Cipher Challenge
Grant's Richmond Telegram
This operational telegram, transmitted by Samuel Beckwith for Ulysses S. Grant on 3 April 1865, reached the War Department in a reversed and phonetically altered form. All 40 transmitted words are preserved. Friedman's federal lectures
Source & status
- Origin
- Historical cipher
- Solution
- Established
Ciphertext
A. Lincoln its in fume a in hymn to start I army treating there possible if of cut too forward pushing is He is so all Richmond aunt confide is Andy evacuated Petersburg reports Grant morning this Washington Secretary War.