Miss Carroll is a daughter of the late Hon. Thomas King Carroll,
one of the best men Maryland has ever produced.

GEORGE VICKERS.

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PRINCETON, _October 13, 1874_.

Miss Carroll:

I thank you for your letter of the 19th ultimo and for the two
pamphlets that accompanied it, which I read with great interest.
I think they clearly establish your claim on the gratitude of the
country and on a suitable remuneration by Congress by proving
that you rendered the Government very important service during
the crisis of the late war. As that service involved great labor
and sacrifice on your part and saved the country a great amount
of useless expenditure in men and money, justice as well as
gratitude demands that it should be liberally rewarded.

Hoping that those in authority will recognize the debt which the
country owes you,

I am very respectfully yours,

CHARLES HODGE,
_President of Theological Seminary_.

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WASHINGTON, D. C., _December 16, 1874_.

Dear Miss Carroll:

I have not the vanity to suppose that my commendation can add to
the high estimate placed by all upon your services to the Union
in the late war; but as you have done me the honor to ask a
candid expression of my opinion I venture to say that any
statesman or author of America might be justly proud of having
written such papers as the able pamphlets produced by you in
support of the Government at that critical period.

As to your military services in planning the Tennessee campaign,
you hold and have published too many proofs of the validity of
your claim to require further confirmation.

I shall rejoice in your success in procuring a formal recognition
of your labors if only it will aid in establishing the just rule
that equal services, whether performed by man or woman, must
always command equal recognition and reward.

As a Marylander, I am proud that in the war of the rebellion "the
Old Maryland line" was so worthily represented by you.

SAMUEL T. WILLIAMS.

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