Civil War Secrets: Hidden Messages & Codes 🕵️‍♂️

During the American Civil War, secret codes and cryptography played a crucial role in military strategy, intelligence gathering, and communication. Both the Union and Confederate forces employed complex ciphers to encrypt their messages, ensuring that sensitive information about troop movements, supply lines, and battle plans remained hidden from the enemy. This YouTube Short will dive into some of the most fascinating aspects of Civil War cryptography, including how the North used the **Vigenère cipher**.

Additionally, we'll explore how both sides tried to intercept and decode each other's messages. Discover how Confederate signals were often deciphered by Union codebreakers, leading to significant military victories, and how codes were delivered through invisible ink, complex numerical systems, and even disguised as innocuous letters.

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