# Confederate Code Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-code-question/245367>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 16, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-code-question/245367 "2004-05-16T03:14:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Oat1957](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Oat1957](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat1957)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-code-question/245367/1 "2004-05-16T03:14:16Z")

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Geocaching related.

I can’t find anything using Google to help me decipher this code.

Please look [here](http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=17977e32-81af-4e81-a617-a96f2c4baa79) and tell me how I can decipher this. I don’t want the the actual answers but rather how I can do this myself.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-code-question/245367/2 "2004-05-16T04:22:37Z")

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I remember seeing a similar code in a Sherlock Holmes story, “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”.

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**Author:** ![Oat1957](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Oat1957](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat1957)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-code-question/245367/3 "2004-05-17T00:51:26Z")

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[Found it](http://www.algonet.se/~osarkab/mart_1/dancingmen/pix_damen/preview24p.GIF)

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**Author:** ![Oat1957](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Oat1957](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oat1957)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confederate-code-question/245367/4 "2004-05-17T01:00:36Z")

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> [@mks57](#):
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> I remember seeing a similar code in a Sherlock Holmes story, “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”.

You were correct. Thanks.