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Something for U.S. history buffs

post #1 of 5
12/25/10 at 11:24am
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Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming
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A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.

The dispatch offered no hope to doomed Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton: Reinforcements are not on the way.

The encrypted, 6-line message was dated July 4, 1863, the date of Pemberton's surrender to Union forces led by Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Siege of Vicksburg in what historians say was a turning point midway into the Civil War.
Coded American Civil War message in bottle deciphered

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A message in a bottle delivered to a Confederate general during the American Civil War has been deciphered, 147 years after it was written.
In the encrypted message, a commander tells Gen John Pemberton that no reinforcements are available to help him defend Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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post #2 of 5
12/25/10 at 12:21pm
Wow! Thank you for posting!
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post #3 of 5
12/26/10 at 5:26am
That is so cool.....touching a piece of the past like that. Gives me shivers!!
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post #4 of 5
12/26/10 at 3:09pm
I saw this on the news today, that's awesome!
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post #5 of 5
12/27/10 at 11:01am
Neat bit of history. Vicksburg was a major thorn in the side for Grant during the war.
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