The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
NO. 30.
A TALE OF THE WAR.
A Remarkable Account of the Plans Of
Woman Who, HI il Claimed saved
the Union.

lowing interesting article on "lhe W oman
Who saved the tnion;''
Twenty years ago our country lay in
deadly peril. Involved in gigantic civil
war. every thing seemed to be going
against us When the war broke out we
all looked toward General Scott. our com
mander-in-chief. the veteran of past
Bull Run the conviction sank into our
hearts that the great officer, then rapidly
aging, could not carry the responsibility Of
the conflict before MS. Another and
another general was tried. Defeat follow
ed defeat. No one seemed capable of
planning successfully 50 vast a business as
the subjugation of the Southern Confeder-
acy, extending over an immense area, full
of enthusiasm in its evil cause, with officers
and armies and resources long prepared
for the conflict. Our faithful President.
surrounded by his counselors, sat over
whelmed with care and INNER, ed in gloom.
The Northern army was costing the nation
81, 000, 600 day. Senator Dawes, in a
speech in the House. had declared it I'M
possible for the United States to meet this
state of things sixty days longer; an ig-
nominious peace was upon the country and
at its very DOORS So confident were the
European powers of the speedy dissolution
of the Union that France had already ex-
tended her hand to control Mexico, and
Enula nd ahf,nfaa Ill 4l,a+ Il,
sidered our defeat a foregone conclusion.
Then there came a sudden change A
new campaign opened. Victory followed
victory. The Confederates perceived
with CONSERVATION that we had found the
key to the whole situation, and that with
the Tennessee campaign we had eut the
rebellion to the heart. The fall of Fort
Henry opened the navigation Of the Ten
nessee river. Its capture Was followed by
the evacuation of Columbus and Bowling
Green. Fort Donelson was given up and
its garrison of 1900 troops marched out
as prisoners of war. Pittsburg Landing
and Gorinth followed, and Beauregard saw
with dismay that this wonderful campaign
Of the Tennessee had sealed the fate Of the
Confederacy
BY and by the inquiry arose: Who
planned this wonderful campaign Grant
had achieved a brilliant success as an
energetic and efficient general But he
had been acting on a line laid out for him
No one pretended that lie had planned the
campaign. A debate as to its origin took
place in the House of Representatives
February "a 1862. and in the senate on
March 10 of the same year 1t was ascrib-
ed in turn to Lincoln himself to the Seere-
tary Of War. 10 General IIalieck, to Com
modore Foote. to the combined wisdom or
of Generals Grant, HaIleek and Foote, 10
General c. F. Smith. to General Fremont.
Lincoln maintained silence. He and his
most trusted confdants knew that the
whole campaign had been planned by
woman and that woman Anna Ella Carroll.
of Maryland
Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, chairman Of
the Committee on the Conduct OF the War.
in numerous letters, bears testimony to this
fact, and says: Il have sometimes reproach-
ed myself that | had not made known the
author when they were discussing the
resolution in Congress to find out But
Mr. Lincoln and Mr.. Stanton were opposed
to its being known that the armies were
moving under the plan Of a civilian (and
that civilian woman He wanted the
armies to believe that they were doing the
whole business of saving the country
In repeated letters Mr. Wade testifies that
Miss Carroll, planned the campaign and
speaks Of her great previous services, of
her influence, which prevented the seces-
sion of Maryland. of the powerful pam
phlets on the conduct of the war prepared
by her at Lincoln's request He says
writing to herr
"The country, almost in her last ex-
tremty, was saved by your sagaeity aud
unremitting labor; indeed, your services
were so great that it is hard to make the
world believe it. That all this great work
should be brought about 10y woman is
inconceivable to vulgar minds You
cannot be deprived of the honor of having
done greater and more efficient service for
the country in the time of her greatest
peril than any other person inthe Republic,
and knowledge Of This cannot be long
repressed.
Similar empl attic testimony was borne
10y Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Assistant
Secretary of War, to whom Miss Carroll
had submitted her plan and whoinforned
her in 1862 that the adoption Of her plan
has saved the country millions of money"
also by Hon Edward Bates, member of
the Cabinet by Cassins NJ Clay, by
Reverdy Johnson, by S. p Chase and
other noted men.
Hon. L. d. Evans. Justice OF the sup
RENE Court Of Texas. in pamphlet entitl-
ed '.The Material Bearing Of the Tennessee
Campaign OF 1852 pom the Destinies Of
our Civil War, shows that no military
plan could have saved the Union except
this. and that this was untAought Of and
unknown until suggested by Miss Carroll,
who alone had the genius to grasp the sitna-
ton. On the Both OF November, 1861,
Miss Carroll laid herplan. with accompany
ing maps and diagrams, before the War