The Eckert collection's existence was not known by historians until 2009 when an owner, who had bought it ftom Eckert's descendants, put 76 books up for auction in New York City and it sold for $36,000. The new owners declined to reveal how much they spent.
Archives elsewhere contain militasry y\telegrams, but they are individual paper slips or pages copied from telegram and are haphazardly archived with many missing. The Eckert collection offers a systematic, centralized record in chronological order.
Lincoln spent many hours in the telegraph office of the War department which was located near the White House.
The Exkert collection shows that Lincoln had an assortment of aliases: Ida, India, Irving, Ingress, Ingrate and Ingot. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was Indigo or Infant. If a message said "shaker" or "sable," it meant that an attack was to take place. The code for infantry was "rapture" and "ramble."
Evidence of insider trading was even found according to how a battle ended and the price of cotton and gold.
Seaky, Very, Very Sneaky. The Old "Ingrate." --Old Secesh
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