{"id":5979,"date":"2016-09-05T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T04:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2016-09-02T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T04:49:23","slug":"decoding-civil-war-telegrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2016\/09\/decoding-civil-war-telegrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding Civil War Telegrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5980\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5980\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Eckert_Telegraph_500-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the logbooks that need to be transcribed\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Eckert_Telegraph_500-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Eckert_Telegraph_500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the logbooks that need to be transcribed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Huntington Library in California is asking for the public&#8217;s help in decoding an archive of thousands of Civil War telegrams in the library&#8217;s possession. \u00a0According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntington.org\/WebAssets\/Templates\/content.aspx?id=22131\">Library&#8217;s News Release<\/a>\u00a0there are over 15,000 telegrams from top members of the Lincoln Administration to include the president himself that were sent encoded during the Civil War and the library would now like to decode them.<\/p>\n<p>The library has set up a project on zooniverse to crowdsource the decoding project where each participant gets one page of the telegraph logbooks to transcribe and then compare their transcription with those of others to increase accuracy. \u00a0This is history in action. \u00a0If you would like to partcipate the zooniverse site is here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/zooniverse\/decoding-the-civil-war\">https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/zooniverse\/decoding-the-civil-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huntington Library in California is asking for the public&#8217;s help in decoding an archive of thousands of Civil War telegrams in the library&#8217;s possession. \u00a0According to the Library&#8217;s News Release\u00a0there are over 15,000 telegrams from top members of the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2016\/09\/decoding-civil-war-telegrams\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224],"tags":[1027,1020,1037],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern-warfare","tag-american-history","tag-american-military-history","tag-us-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}