The New York Crowd

[RJNorton]

(10-04-2013 08:12 AM)JMadonna Wrote:  Indeed I have so many papers in my possession, which in the hands of the enemy would utterly ruin and destroy many of the prominent men in the North.

Don't know if I am interpreting that correctly, but my initial impression is that it sort of reminded me of the Neff-Baker ciphers.

There were at least eleven members of Congress involved in the plot, no less than twelve Army officers, three Naval officers and at least twenty four civilians, of which one was a governor of a loyal state. Five were bankers of great repute, three were nationally known newspapermen and eleven were industrialists of great repute and wealth.