US Civil War
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...
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 Wr...
2. Chapter 23. Chapter 3The Military Situation -- Goes to St. Louis -- Inception of the Plan of the Tennessee Campaign -- Gives in The Plan at the War Department -- President Lincoln's Delight at the S...
4. Chapter 45. Chapter 56. Chapter 67. Chapter 7In commencing the attempt to portray a very remarkable career I had hoped for the coöperation of the person concerned so far, at least, as the supervision of any statements I mi...
8. Chapter 8In looking at the map of Maryland we find that the configuration of the State is of an unusual character. The eastern portion is divided through the middle by the broad waters o...
9. Chapter 9CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE -- MISS CARROLL'S YOUTHFUL LETTERS TO HER FATHER -- RELIGIOUS TENDENCIES -- LETTERS FROM DR. ROBERT J. BRECKENRIDGE -- SALE OF KINGSTON HALL -- EARLY WR...
10. Chapter 10"On the election of Mr. Lincoln, in 1860, the safety of the Union was felt to be in peril and its perpetuity to depend on the action of the border slave States, and, from her ge...
11. Chapter 11THE MILITARY SITUATION -- GOES TO ST. LOUIS -- INCEPTION OF THE PLAN OF THE TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN -- GIVES IN THE PLAN AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT -- PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S DELIGHT AT THE S...
12. Chapter 12List of Miss Carroll's papers sent into the War Department in her own handwriting and signed with her name, originally on file at the War Department; all in the first division r...
13. Chapter 13Very curious is the picture revealed by the Congressional records. Fully as Lincoln and his Military Committee recognize the genius of the remarkable woman now taking the lead,...
14. Chapter 14In July of 1862 Miss Carroll presented her very modest bill for the pamphlets that had been accepted at the War Department, which included the expenses paid by herself of printi...
15. Chapter 15A Military Committee, with General Jacob M. Howard as chairman, was appointed to consider it. Thomas A. Scott wrote twice to the Military Committee endorsing the claim. Mr. Wade...
16. Chapter 16Miss Carroll, urged on by the friends of justice and historical verity, had made great efforts rightly to present her case and to get together a wonderful mass of indubitable te...