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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/coded-message-in-a-bottle-from-1863.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A message in a bottle from the American Civil War has been opened (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-coded-message-in-a-bottle-from-1863.jpg" alt="A message in a bottle from the American Civil War has been opened (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A glass bottle stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.</p>
<p>The dispatch offered no hope to doomed Lt Gen John C Pemberton: Reinforcements are not on the way.</p>
<p>The encrypted message was dated July 4, 1863, the date of Pemberton&#8217;s surrender to Union forces led by Ulysses S Grant, ending the Siege of Vicksburg.</p>
<p>The bottle had sat undisturbed since 1896 at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond. It was a gift from Capt William A Smith, who served during the Vicksburg siege.</p>
<p>The museum called in a retired CIA code breaker to decipher the message.</p>
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