Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-15
Anna Ella Carroll.

J To the Editor of The Evening Star:
Some newly volunteering friends Of this
| criminslly neglected lady have again called
| public attention to her case and history Her
| memorial carries with it the strong reports Of
Senator Howard and of Gen. Bragg of the
House, both in decisive terms establishing her
authorship of the strategy of the campaign on
the tennessee in the first months of 1861, which
at once changed the fortunes of the war.
Miss Carroll, aside from her remarkable
genius for military strategy, is a very interest
| ing parsonage by reason OF her family and per-
sonal history. She shares in equal parts the
blood Of the historic CAROLS and that of the
Sir Thomas King farm and estate. all OF east
ern Maryland. She is the eldest daughter of
| the late Gov. Thos. King Carroll, and was born
in ISIS. Educated as such daughter should
| be, she signalized her early maturity by eman-
| cipating the group Of family servants regarded
| as hers.
struggle by which Maryland was retained in
| the Union In lS60-6l. Mics Carroll declared her
devotion to the national cause by rejecting
with indignant scorn the boundless offers Of
Jefferson Davis to her father. She stood by
the side of stout old Gov. Hicks in the life and
death struggle to keep Maryland, and of course
the District of Columbia, in the Union. Hers
was in many respects the most trenchant pen
in the Union and was most effectively devoted
TO its cause. Gov. Hicks wrote her more than
services to their state and to him personally in
the crisis.
The conception Of the Tennessee campaign
was the greatest achievement of her genius. 1t
has been justly ranked with the greatest con-
| ceptions of strategic skill
In time the great King-Carroll estate
disappeared. The CAROLS were in want. and
| in March, 1870, application for recognition and
relief was made to Congress. Then came the
great report Of Howard. Gen. Bragg's was
made ten years later, and there was another
report from the Senate-a so-cailed adverse
report made by Senator Cockerell Of Missouri
| . strange adverse report He said the strategy
was the concept of Anna Ella Carroll, and de-
clares it to be 1.-THE greatest military event in
the interest of the human race known to mod
ern ages. and much more. 1t was one Of ''the
few strategic movements in the worlds history
that have decided the fate Of empires and peo-
pies" His conclusion is the service was too
great the fame too pure, for compensation.
Aiss Carroll should 60 and starve in the splen-
dor OF her achievement rather than stain its lus-
ter with gold; and she has dutifuly obeyed.
Aged and helpless, sustained by the scant earn
ings of younger sister. she 10 awaiting the
relief that comes to all Congress viii not
listen 70 her.
was on the COMMITTEES of revolutionary
claims In the House Of the Thirty-seventn Con-
gress. There l saw all the papers in the once
famous Salmon case-the notes of honor of
Robert Morris, minister Of finance of the Com
tiucuthl SouB1ebe, IOf lie money advanced 20
enable Washington and Rochambeau to make
the final campaign against Coruwallis, and
letters OF Madison acknowledging money re-
ceived from the same hand 70 keen, him in
Congress. Did We pay the money back? Not
we. APd recently Judge E. b. Taylor OF Ohio
reminded me OF the Piatt case of our own
state. He, contractor for the north western
army under Harrison, after he had lost all by
Huiis surrender ct Detroit in 1912, at the ur-
gent solicitation OF Armstrong, Secretary Of
War, embarked all his means and all he could
borrow from friends, and he thus enabled Har-
rison to make his great campaign against Te-
cumseh and Proctor, resulting in Tecumseh's
death and the capture OF the entire British
army. Piatt had Armstrong; vouchera Was
he paid? An aged, impoverished man, inn
prisoned here in this city for debt and out on
the jail limits while prosecuting his claim, he fell
dead on the avenue one day while plodding his
hopeless way toward the Capitol TO listlessly
wait for some word of his case.
There are many such eases. Il Mis- CAROLS
oass to be added permanently 70 the list3
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