Camp Fire Stories of the Mississippi Valley Campaign By Marie Louise Benton Ban
Camp Fire Stories of the Mississippi Valley Campaign By Marie Louise Benton Ban
Bankston, Marie Louise Benton
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51 ANNA ELLA CARROLL, OF MARYLAND, Fifty years ago there appeared before Congress a woman seeking recompense for services to the Gov- ernment, Anna Ella Carroll, a Southerner who did not heed the cry of her country, and was unmindful of its traditions. The story, familiar through the press, * tells us that Miss Carroll was born in Maryland, and early in life repudiated slavery. When the war came she freed her slaves, and gave her time to writing what was con- sidered very able pamphlets to the ...cause of the Union. So forceful were these that she was regularly em- ployed by the War Department to put before the country, in writing, the views of the Government on military and other leading questions. Such was her influence with the Administration that she came to be practically a member of Lincoln's Cabinet. Even as early as Buchanan's term her friends claim that she held Maryland to the Union by what she said and wrote. But it is as a war strategist that she figures most conspicuously. "In those wonderful days, when the South stood like a slender David barring the onward path of the Northern Goliath, " Assistant Secretary of War Scott proposed to Mr.
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