A message in a bottle was delivered to a Confederate general Gen John Pemberton during the Civil War has been deciphered, 147 years after it was written. It was dated 4 July 1863, the day Vicksburg fell to the Union Army.

The message read “You can expect no help from this side of the river,”

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