The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-04-17
Miss Carrokps 1Ee.s,o.iaI.
A MOST REMARKABLE CAsE-wHO PLANNED
THE TENNESSEE RIVER CAMPAIGN2

A MOST REMARKABLE CAsE-wHo PLANNED
THE TENNESSEE RIVER CAMPAIGN2
This year, as for several years past, Miss
Anna Ella Carroll comes before Congress
with her cli inns for compensation for ser
vices rendered during the civil war. For a
while this claim was laughed ut on general
principles, because Miss Carroll was a wo-
man. Afterwards it was frOwned upon as
disreSpectful in is essence to some of our
great captains. But it gathered strength
and consistency all the while, until i. at
last obtained the suffrages of many Con
gresham and the favorable report Of a
committee. 1t is now by no means impus-
sble that it may yet be recognized by con-
siderable parties in both Houses, and even
that Miss Carroll may some day obtain the
compensation she asks. Her claim is GER
tainly an extraordinary one. She asserts
and assumes to prove that she originated
and suggested tothe Government the plan
for opening the Mississippi aud breaking
the rebel power III the Southwest, which
was finally adopted and carried out. She
claims to have made out 4 detailed plan of
the campaign in which our armies ascend
ed the Tennessee river to the decided pO-
sition which they occupied on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad She claims
further to have written an important series
War Department promised her a compen-
sation which she has not received. The
, latter claim is not so serious and will
scarcely hold, but the proof she brings to
sustain her assertions in relation to the
I Tennessee campaign are of a character
which it Is almost equally Giffiult to admit
or deny.
The Hon. Thomas \. Scott, Assistant
Secretary Of War, certiieS to the Justice
Of the claim in the most positive and un-
qualified terms. His statement is worth
giving in his own words
PHILADELPHIA, June q, 1870.
/ On or about the Both of November, 1861, ,
/ Miss Carroll, as stated in her memorial
/ called on me, as Assistant Secretary Of
( War, and suggested the idea of abandon
ing the expedition which as then prepar-
ing to descend the Mississippi river, and to
adopt instead the Tennessee river. and
handed to me the plan of the campaign, as
/ appended TO her memorial, which plan
/ submitted to the Secretary of War, and
/ its general ideas were adopted. On my
/ return from the Southwest, 1852 Inform
. ed Miss Carroll, as she states in her me
mortal, that through the adoption Of this
/ plan the country had saved millions, and
that it entitled her 10 the kind considera-
/ ton OF Congress. THOMAS \. SCOTT.
Col. Scott repeats this unreserved decla-
( Hon. &. f. Wade is equally emphatic. He
says that President Lincoln and Mr.. Stan
ton both informed him that the credit of
. the tennessee campaign was due to Miss
/ Carroll. The Hon. o. H. Browning. Sen
ator from Illinois. gives the same evidence
with equal distinctness. Chief Justice
Evans, of the Supreme Court Of Texas,
/ goes further into details, giving the case
I Of the memoTialist far more fully and
strongly than She presents it herself The
venerable Elisha Whittlesey joins in the
! same representations. Such legal authori-
/ ties as Reverdy Johnson and Truman
/ Smith say that the evidence is complete in
/ her favor. Finally, the Military Committee
/ OF the Senate in the Forty-irst Congress,
after maturely weighing the case, reported
/ through their Chairman, Senator Howard
{ of Michigan, that Miss CarrolILad estab-
lishcd her claim.
/ The case thus supported is one Of the
most remarkable ones which has ever come
! before the National Legislature. The de-
cision is Of Importance to more than the
memOrialist. If it is III her favor. the
country will, of course, give her ungrudg-
lngly the compensation she deserves. al
though others have already been muuifi-
Gently paid in money and glory for the
work she claims to have done.-Ncg0 York
Tribune.