Stager’s cipher was a simple but effective word transposition, or “route,” cipher, described in suitably cryptic (to me, at any rate) terms by a Civil War telegrapher: “The principle of the …

To make sure important messages were not learned by the enemy, they were coded using a complicated system known as the Stager ciphers, the code keys known only by a handful of …

It is well-known that the Federals employed a route transposition cipher devised by Anson Stager during the American Civil War. It developed from a very simple one written on a card into a …

Code Aspect of Stager Ciphers. Route transposition by word is not a very secure way of secret communication. Any pair of words likely to come one after another would give a clue to the …

Anson Stager developed the first telegraphic cipher used for military purposes during the Civil War.1 Shortly after the war began, Governor William Dennison of Ohio asked Stager to …

War, used by the Union's Military Telegraph Service, was developed by Anson Stager. Despite being called the Telegraphic Cipher, it was a route transposition and code system, basically a …

Mar 14, 2013 · Anson Stager, the former general superintendent of the Western Union Company, was another important figure in the secret Civil War. A skilled telegrapher, he served on Gen. …

Anson Stager was the first general manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and his code had a huge advantage over the typical Confederate wire cipher. The Confederate …

Anson Stager took over from Albert Myers as Chief Signals Officer and mainly used transposition ciphers Despite this being a weak cipher, it was not broken

Mar 6, 2012 · The cipher was devised by Anton Stager, the general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, at the request of the government of Ohio; later, General George …