re not on the file.

After examining the papers for some time I asked to see the originals
of the letters of Wade and Scott. I was told they were in another
department and would take some time to look up, but a gentleman was
politely detailed to conduct me there and look up the letters. I
opened my Miss. Doc. 58 and pointed out the long list of letters of
Mr. Wade's, on pages 23, 24, 25, and 26, and asked to see those first.

The gentlemen expressed his astonishment that, with _such_ a document
in my hand, I should ask for _originals_. He said that the documents
printed by order of Congress were to all intents and purposes the same
as the originals, as they were never so printed until those letters
and papers had been examined and proved to be genuine. I asked if the
printing was also a guarantee for Miss Carroll's papers as printed in
that document, though we were now unable to find the originals. He
replied assuredly it was; that I could positively rely upon all that
had been so printed. There was no going back upon the Congressional
records. Other gentlemen came up and confirmed the statement.

Under these circumstances it seemed unnecessary to carry the
investigation any further, so with thanks for the great friendliness
and courtesy that I had met with I took up my precious Miss. Doc. 58
and departed with a slight intimation that if anything more should be
needed they might have the pleasure of seeing me again.

The missing documents, after being on file for 8 years, were sent on
one or more occasions from the War Department to the Capitol for
examination by committees.

On page 30 of the Miss. Doc. 58 we learn the reason, on testimony of
Wade and Hunt (keeper of the records), why they are there no longer.

[Footnote: For list of documents see pages 29 and
82.]

MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS.

On page 178 of the memorial of '78 Judge Evans, in one of the many
repeated letters and statements of great interest that I have been
obliged to omit for want of space, relates how he stood beside Miss
Carroll in her parlor at St. Louis when she was gathering the
information for the preparation of her paper to the War Department of
November 30, 1861, and its accompanying map. He says, "I have a very
distinct recollection of aiding her in the preparation of that paper,
tracing with her upon a map of the United States, which hung in her
parlor, the Memphis and Charleston rai