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workers and figured that she would be the ideal person to organize and run a confederate espionage ring.

Morris was absolutely interested in working for the confederacy. It became the focus of her life.

Thomas Jordan not only recruited her, but also gave her a 26 character cipher.

She could then send her intelligence in this coded form to the south in case anybody was ever intercepted.

Luckily a few examples of her cipher survived, and we have a couple of them here.