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fice in company with the men in this photograph. He and Samuel H. Beckwith, Grant's cipher operator, were almost inseparable and the wires were kept busy with despatches to and from the President. Beckwith's tent adjoined the larger tent of Colonel Bowers, which Lincoln made his headquarters, and where he received the translations of his numerous cipher despatches he later returned to the army and performed conspicuous service. At the battle of Chattanooga, he installed and operated lines onnied Lincoln from City Point on his visit to Richmond April 4, 1865. In his account of this visit, published in Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, by David Homer Bates, he tells how the President immediately repaired to his accustomed desk in Colonel Bowers' tent, next to the telegraph office, upon his return to City Point. Beckwith found a number of cipher messages for the President awaiting translation, doubtless in regard to Grant's closing in about the exhausted forces of Lee. tain method