"I want you to set forth to these gentlemen, in your private letters, the facts about the abstracting of these papers. It has never been properly done. It is exceedingly important as evidence of the truth of your claim. Tell them how your papers were abstracted from the files twice. Send a letter to General Banning. Tell Judge Evans to ask the General to appoint a sub-committee to investigate it, so as to submit it to the general committee. Tell them all, and remind them that when one report was made in the Senate Committee by Mr. Howard the papers were abstracted from the files, as the Secretary of the Committee, Rev. Samuel Hunt, will testify. I hope the report will be a very emphatic and explicit one in setting forth your plan as you took it to Colonel Scott. It makes the strongest foundation to commence upon in the sub-committee. There will undoubtedly be a minority of Republicans, and it will be so much the better for that, because they can find no evidence to invalidate the report of the majority, and I would like to see them make the attempt. Being at the head of the War Committee, I had most to do with it. The committee not half the time were present. Nobody knows the difficulty the War Committee had to get the army moved. We had almost to fight for that campaign." Mr. Hunt writes from Natick, Mass.: _March 7, 1876._ My Dear Miss Carroll: I remember well your failure to recover twice all the papers you intrusted to the charge of the Military Committee and our inability to account for their loss. Hoping you will have better success now, I remain as ever, Very truly yours, S. HUNT, _Late Secretary of Senate Military Committee._ * * * * * Senator Howard tells Miss Carroll she has a right to feel disappointed that her claims should be neglected, but he says, "you know the great power of the _military_, who don't want you to have the recognition." "Senator Howard," she replies, "there is something in moral integrity. I understand you, but just tell the _truth_. I ask only to be sustained by truth, and am not afraid of this power." "Miss Carroll," he says with emphasis, "you have done more for the country than them all. You told and showed where to fight and how to strike the rebellion upon its head. No one comprehends the magnitude of that service more than I." * * * * * Judge Wade's remarks to Senator Wilson last of May, 1862 (as taken down by a reporter):