JOHNSON.

FROM ORESTES H. BROWNSON.

QUINCY, ILL., _Sept. 17, 1873_.

MISS A. E. CARROLL:--During the progress of the war of the rebellion,
from 1861 to 1865, I had frequent conversations with President Lincoln
and Secretary Stanton in regard to the able and efficient part you had
taken in behalf of the country, in all of which they expressed their
admiration and gratitude for the patriotic and valuable services you
had rendered the cause of the Union. In the hope that you would be
adequately recompensed by Congress....

I am your obedient servant, O. H. BROWNSON.

LETTER OF HON. THOMAS A. SCOTT TO HON. JACOB M. HOWARD, Chairman of
the Senate Military Committee upon Miss Carroll's claim for a pension
after the close of the war:

HON. JACOB M. HOWARD, UNITED STATES SENATE:--On or about the 30th
of November, 1861, Miss Carroll, as stated in her memorial,
called on me as Assistant Secretary of War, and suggested the
propriety of abandoning the expedition which was then preparing
to descend the Mississippi River, and to adopt instead the
Tennessee River, and handed me the plan of the campaign as
appended to her memorial, which plan I submitted to the Secretary
of War, and its general ideas were adopted. On my return from the
South-west in 1862, I informed Miss Carroll, as she states in her
memorial, that through the adoption of this plan, the country had
been saved millions, and that it entitled her to the kind
consideration of Congress.

THOS. A. SCOTT.

LETTER OF HON. THOMAS A. SCOTT TO HON. HENRY WILSON, Chairman of the
Military Committee, United States Senate:

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 up the Tennessee River
and thence southerly, was submitted to the Secretary of War and
President. 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 to 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 cam