Ira Hamilton

In civilian life, Major Ira Hamilton was a mathematics professor at Washington University. During the Second Great War he was inducted into the Confederate Army and served in the encryption section of the Signals Branch.

In 1942 Hamilton was stationed in the Gray House. President Jake Featherston personally gave him a letter to encrypt, in the tightest code possible, and to send it to Winston Churchill. It requested British assistance in an attempt to get Canada to rise in rebellion against the U.S. occupation authorities. The C.S. had been unsuccessful to that point; they might as well have been Yankees themselves.