er memorial, that through the adoption of this plan
the county had been saved millions, and that it entitled her to
the kind consideration of Congress.

THOMAS A. SCOTT.

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To the Military Committee, appointed for that purpose in 1872:

Hon. JACOB M. HOWARD, of the Military Committee of the United States
Senate.

Again:

PHILADELPHIA, _May 1, 1872_.

My Dear Sir:

I take pleasure in stating that the plan presented by Miss
Carroll in November, 1861, for a campaign upon the Tennessee
river and thence south, was submitted to the Secretary of War and
President Lincoln, and after Secretary Stanton's appointment I
was directed to go to the Western armies and arrange to increase
their effective force as rapidly as possible. A part of the duty
assigned me was the organization and consolidation into regiments
of all the troops then being recruited in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and Michigan, for the purpose of carrying through this
campaign, then inaugurated. This work was vigorously prosecuted
by the army, and as the valuable suggestions of Miss Carroll,
made to the Department some months before, were substantially
carried out through the campaigns in that section, great success
followed, and the country was largely benefited in the saving of
time and expenditure.

I hope Congress will reward Miss Carroll liberally for her
patriotic efforts and services.

Very truly yours,

THOMAS A. SCOTT.

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Letter from the Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, appended to the report of
General Bragg, of the Military Committee, of March 3, 1881:

Dear Miss Carroll:

I had no part in getting up the Committee [on the Conduct of the
War]. The first intimation to me was that I had been made the
head of it; but I never shirked a public duty, and at once went
to work to do all that was possible to save the country. We went
fully into the examination of the several plans for military
operations then known to the Government, and we saw plainly
enough that the time it must take to execute any of them would
make it fatal to the Union.

We were in the deepest despair, until just at this time Colonel
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