Decode Abe's secret messages.

• Position: HISTORY - Abraham Lincoln's secret messages - Brief article

Here's your chance to make history. More than 15,000 encoded messages from the Civil War (1861-65), including 100 sent by President Lincoln himself, were recently uploaded to research site Zooniverse, where anyone can help decipher them. During the war, Lincoln and his staff sent telegrams to Union battlefield commanders using a complex system of codes to confuse Confederate troops who tried to intercept the messages. After the war, a Union army employee took the telegrams and code books home to New Jersey, where...