Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has been maintained. Closing quote added after "Japan has to wall themselves in".] A MILITARY GENIUS. LIFE OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL OF MARYLAND SARAH ELLEN BLACKWELL [Illustration: Ex Libris] [Illustration: Anna Ella Carroll] A MILITARY GENIUS. LIFE OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL, OF MARYLAND, ("The great unrecognized member of Lincoln's Cabinet.") COMPILED FROM FAMILY RECORDS AND CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS BY SARAH ELLEN BLACKWELL. For Sale at the Office of the _Woman's Journal_, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Rooms of the Woman's Suffrage Society, 1406 G St., Washington, D. C. Price: $1.10 (Forwarded free on receipt of price). WASHINGTON, D. C. JUDD & DETWEILER, PRINTERS. 1891. Entered in the office of the Librarian of Congress, 1891. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The long years come and go, And the Past, The sorrowful splendid Past, With its glory and its woe, Seems never to have been. Seems never to have been! O somber days and grand, How ye crowd back once more, Seeing our heroes graves are green By the Potomac, and the Cumberland And in the valley of the Shenandoah! When we remember how they died, In dark ravine and on the mountain side, In leaguered fort and fire-encircled town, And where the iron ships went down. How their dear lives were spent In the weary hospital tent, In the cockpit's crowded hive, ---- it seems Ignoble to be alive! THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. CONTENTS. Chapter I. Ancestry and Old Plantation Life............................... 1 Chapter II. 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 Affairs............................. 14 Chapter III. Rise of the Secession Movement -- The Capital in Danger -- Miss Carroll's Literary Labors for the Cause of the Union -- Testimonials from Eminent Men................................. 31 Chapter IV.