Samuel Beckwith
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Samuel Beckwith
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Captain Samuel H. Beckwith was a telegraph and cipher officer to Ulysses S. Grant. He was nicknamed "Grant's Shadow" by other staff officers. Beckwith was the first to transmit news of John Wilkes Booth's whereabouts after Lincoln's assassination, leading to Booth’s capture. Beckwith was also present as Grant's telegraph officer on Abraham Lincoln's visits. In Washington, Lincoln used to daily visit the telegraph office, and cipher operator David Homer Bates was later to recall these visits, alo
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