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David_Winfred_Gaddy

Independent researcher concentrating on the signal service of the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865, including personalities, equipment, activities (telegraphy, cryptography, secret service).

Co-author (with James O. Hall) of William A. Tidwell's 1988 "Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln." Edited, with notes, Charles E. Taylor's "The Confederate Signal and Secret Service" (Toomey Press facsimile edition of the 1903 original). Author, lecturer, editor. Translator-editor of "Essential Matters: A History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Viet-Nam, 1945-1975"

Company member since mid/late 1970s. Other interests include military music-field music, American Civil War.

National Guard (120th Inf, 30th "Old Hickory" Div; 257th Army Band), 1949-c1960.

"Signal Corps Association, 1860-1865"