Beale codes

[kenmor]

I am going to give a opinion,and hope I don't ruffle any feathers,If I was going to design a code like supposely Beale done,I would make it like a comanation lock,by first putting like he did contents,then I would make another code using some form of the contents code to give names,then you would have to use contents code with name code in order to break location code.,in Beale case I would have made code 2,then you would have to use that code to break code 3,then use code 2 and 3 to break code 1. What does everyone else think? Just my opinion.....KenMor

 

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[Rebel - KGC]

(WINK) MHO... TOO much focus on BC # 1, 2, & 3; look at history of Lynchburg, Bedford, Botetourt County, VIRGINIA "areas". (GRIN).

 

[bigscoop]

I am going to give a opinion,and hope I don't ruffle any feathers,If I was going to design a code like supposely Beale done,I would make it like a comanation lock,by first putting like he did contents,then I would make another code using some form of the contents code to give names,then you would have to use contents code with name code in order to break location code.,in Beale case I would have made code 2,then you would have to use that code to break code 3,then use code 2 and 3 to break code 1. What does everyone else think? Just my opinion.....KenMor

Don't mind Reb, he's just worried to death that the truth behind the local lore may not be all that local.

What you suggest is reasonable. C1 would certainly have been the most important cipher and the one needing the most protection.

 

[Rebel - KGC]

(CHEESY GRIN) SMIRKING at B.S.; have YOU solved it then? NOT worried... ALL you guys have are the BC # 1, 2, & 3. LOL! GA (Go AHEAD)... waste YOUR TIME; probably ALREADY found & utilized. (WINK).

 

[Cryptography]

(CHEESY GRIN) SMIRKING at B.S.; have YOU solved it then? NOT worried... ALL you guys have are the BC # 1, 2, & 3. LOL! GA (Go AHEAD)... waste YOUR TIME; probably ALREADY found & utilized. (WINK).

 

[masterpoe]

Reb worry! Nope!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

(CHEESY GRIN) SMIRKING at B.S.; have YOU solved it then? NOT worried... ALL you guys have are the BC # 1, 2, & 3. LOL! GA (Go AHEAD)... waste YOUR TIME; probably ALREADY found & utilized. (WINK).

L'burg, Va., Lexington, Va., VMI!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

AND! Maybe... W & L which is adjacent to VMI; has Lee's Chapel... Lee died in 1870; BPP/"JOB PRINT" released in 1885.

 

[franklin]

William "Buck" Wright lived and owned land near where Robert Morriss died. Interesting. Buck believed to be Frank James. Frank James in Lynchburg, Va during the Winter of 1883. A copyright filed by JBW in 1884. Rebel KGC have you researched into Buck Wright's Family. He died at the home of his daughter. I forgot the name of that little town. Was it Irving? I have been there though it is not too far from Goode, Virginia. General Munford and all of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of the Robert E. Lee Chapter attended his funeral in Charlottesville, Va. Maybe just maybe William "Buck" Wright was the author?

 

[ECS]

If one can not prove that William "Buck" Wright was in Virginia during the "2nd year of the Confederate War" and visited the home of the widow Anzoletta Saunders and spoke with Robert Morris, and then in 1884 presented James Beverly Ward a finished manuscript, this is just more grasping at straws speculation that signifies nothing.

 

[franklin]

Good I am glad you like it. I like drinking from straws.

 

[Rebel - KGC]

William "Buck" Wright lived and owned land near where Robert Morriss died. Interesting. Buck believed to be Frank James. Frank James in Lynchburg, Va during the Winter of 1883. A copyright filed by JBW in 1884. Rebel KGC have you researched into Buck Wright's Family. He died at the home of his daughter. I forgot the name of that little town. Was it Irving? I have been there though it is not too far from Goode, Virginia. General Munford and all of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of the Robert E. Lee Chapter attended his funeral in Charlottesville, Va. Maybe just maybe William "Buck" Wright was the author?

Lowesville, Va. Very nice little town on the V & T RR Tracks. BOTH Frank James & William Wright had the "nickname" of "BUCK". Yes Frank & family WERE living in L'burg, Va. in 1882, when JJ was killed out west... NOT! Yes, funeral for "BucK" was in Ch'ville; found him buried in a family plot south of Roanoke, Va.; gotta find my info on him.

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Lowesville, Va. Very nice little town on the V & T RR Tracks. BOTH Frank James & William Wright had the "nickname" of "BUCK". Yes Frank & family WERE living in L'burg, Va. in 1882, when JJ was killed out west... NOT! Yes, funeral for "BucK" was in Ch'ville; found him buried in a family plot south of Roanoke, Va.; gotta find my info on him.

We discussed the Wright "connection" on another TH'ing "site"; even "legrand" was there. Do we REALLY wanna bring it here...?

 

[Rebel - KGC]

ANYWAY, TN has a "Thread" of INTEREST...

 

[Cryptography]

William "Buck" Wright lived and owned land near where Robert Morriss died. Interesting. Buck believed to be Frank James. Frank James in Lynchburg, Va during the Winter of 1883. A copyright filed by JBW in 1884. Rebel KGC have you researched into Buck Wright's Family. He died at the home of his daughter. I forgot the name of that little town. Was it Irving? I have been there though it is not too far from Goode, Virginia. General Munford and all of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of the Robert E. Lee Chapter attended his funeral in Charlottesville, Va. Maybe just maybe William "Buck" Wright was the author?

We know the author was not Mr. Ward!

 

[franklin]

And why not?

 

[masterpoe]

And why not?

Did not Ward himself say he was not the author?