A MILITARY GENIUS.
LIFE OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL OF MARYLAND
SARAH ELLEN BLACKWELL
[Illustration: Ex Libris]
[Illustration: Anna Ella Carroll]
A MILITARY GENIUS.
LIFE OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL, OF MARYLAND,
("The great unrecognized member of Lincoln's Cabinet.")
COMPILED FROM FAMILY RECORDS AND CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS
BY
SARAH ELLEN BLACKWELL.
For Sale at the Office of the _Woman's Journal_, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Rooms of the Woman's Suffrage Society, 1406 G St., Washington, D. C.
Price: $1.10 (Forwarded free on receipt of price).
WASHINGTON, D. C. JUDD & DETWEILER, PRINTERS. 1891.
Entered in the office of the Librarian of Congress, 1891.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The long years come and go, And the Past, The sorrowful splendid Past, With its glory and its woe, Seems never to have been. Seems never to have been! O somber days and grand, How ye crowd back once more, Seeing our heroes graves are green By the Potomac, and the Cumberland And in the valley of the Shenandoah!
When we remember how they died, In dark ravine and on the mountain side, In leaguered fort and fire-encircled town, And where the iron ships went down. How their dear lives were spent In the weary hospital tent, In the cockpit's crowded hive, ---- it seems Ignoble to be alive!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
Ancestry and Old Plantation Life............................... 1
Chapter II.
Childhood and Early Life -- Miss Carroll's Youthful Letters to Her Father -- Religious Tendencies -- Letters from Dr. Robert J. Breckenridge -- Sale of Kingston Hall -- Early Writings -- Letter of Hon. Edward Bates -- Breaking Out of the Civil War -- Preoccupation in Military Affairs............................. 14
Chapter III.
Rise of the Secession Movement -- The Capital in Danger -- Miss Carroll's Literary Labors for the Cause of the Union -- Testimonials from Eminent Men................................. 31
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Military Genius by Sarah Ellen Blackwell
- 2: Unanimously endorsing every fact
- 3: 58 had been omitted there also
- 4: And specimens of the handwriting of Wade and Scott
- 5: Representing the fortifications at Vicksburg
- 6: Sir Thomas King built Kingston Hall
- 7: Was born to the Bloomsborough household
- 8: During the studies of Thomas King Carroll
- 9: Now in possession of Miss Carroll
- 10: Like many another Maryland planter
- 11: The old body servant of Colonel Carroll
- 12: At Kingston Hall open house was kept
- 13: When Governor Thomas King Carroll went to Annapolis
- 14: Carroll was a devoted member of the Church of England
- 15: Breckenridge was the uncle of John C
- 16: Miss Carroll was very pleasing
- 17: Informing me she is going to Philadelphia
- 18: Carroll removed to Dorchester county
- 19: Report on claim of Anna Ella Carroll
- 20: Report of claim of Anna Ella Carroll
- 21: That slavery should not be forbidden
- 22: So long as Maryland remained in the Union
- 23: Well might Governor Hicks say to her again and again
- 24: A remarkable series of war pamphlets
- 25: Your friend and obedient servant
- 26: 1862 She signs herself Anna Ella Carroll
- 27: Is enthusiastic in praise of your publications
- 28: Coming from the President in Cabinet meeting
- 29: I forward the package to New York
- 30: I have known Miss Carroll many years
- 31: I have the honor to be and to remain
- 32: Entitled Miss Carroll's Claim before Congress
- 33: You should persist in your just claim
- 34: Miss Carroll is a daughter of the late Hon
- 35: President of Theological Seminary
- 36: In an extract from the London Times
- 37: Diplomatic correspondence clay 22 to seward
- 38: Events were rapidly pressing in the Southwest which
- 39: The Memphis and Charleston railroad
- 40: Military delay of all things most dreaded
- 41: That the Mississippi could not be opened by the gunboats
- 42: Both to him and to Governor Bates
- 43: Who had planned the Mississippi gunboat scheme
- 44: Richmond was then within reach through Tennessee
- 45: Shattering the arm of Major Eaton
- 46: Nobody but Wade was thought of for chairman
- 47: But must have been in good order in 1885
- 48: Entering the northwest corner of Alabama
- 49: Rather than through Kentucky and Tennessee
- 50: He said it was devised by Miss Carroll
- 51: Stanton came into the Department
- 52: Before we have reached victory we have reached bankruptcy
- 53: WRIGHT We are gasping for life
- 54: On the railroad between Chattanooga and Decatur
- 55: This information I obtained from Mr
- 56: And by the railroad to Vicksburg
- 57: Would be compelled to fly east of the Tombigbee
- 58: Made after we got the expedition inaugurated
- 59: Tucker remarks This is prophecy fulfilled so far
- 60: Through his first subordinates
- 61: Before passing a vote of thanks
- 62: Wade also writes to Miss Carroll The country
- 63: And the Military Committee and Mr
- 64: Late Secretary of Senate Military Committee
- 65: Judge Wade says I went to Morton
- 66: Morrill said your claim was clearly established
- 67: For these reports and conversations see 45th Congress
- 68: I believe Miss Carroll has earned fairly
- 69: Having read with care the several pamphlets mentioned within
- 70: I have read the pamphlets mentioned within
- 71: She must remain an unrecognized member
- 72: Scott addressed a letter to Hon
- 73: And so that Congress adjourned
- 74: It is labeled 45th Congress
- 75: Comptroller of the Treasury see p
- 76: Roscoe Conkling in the House of Representatives
- 77: Williams was prepared to report
- 78: Indorsed Miss Carroll's claim in the strongest manner
- 79: That always would turn up incontestably proven
- 80: Were left behind at the Tremont House
- 81: To retransmit the case to Congress for its consideration
- 82: Miss Carroll merely states her case
- 83: Hoar and some in the House by Mr
- 84: Lodge presented me to General Cutcheon
- 85: With the same invariable result
- 86: Can it continue to hold them down as a disfranchised class