lroad and its connections
southward, the course of the Tennessee, the Alabama, and the Tombigbee
rivers, and the position of Mobile Bay; and when Henry fell she wrote
the Department, showing the feasability of going either to Mobile or
Vicksburg."

In his testimony given on page 85 of Miss. Doc. 179, he says, "On Miss
Carroll's return from the West she prepared and submitted to the
deponent, for his opinion, the plan of the Tennessee river expedition,
as set forth in her memorial. Being a native and resident of that part
of the section and intimately acquainted with its geography, and
particularly with the Tennessee river, deponent was convinced of the
vast military importance of her paper, and advised her to lose no time
in laying the same before the War Department, which she did on or
about November 30, 1861. The accompanying map, rapidly prepared by
Miss Carroll, was made on ordinary writing paper. An unpretentious
map, but fraught with immense importance to the national cause.

Assistant Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott, the great railroad magnate
and a man of remarkably acute mind, saw at a glance the immense
importance of the plan; he hastened with it to Lincoln, and when her
plan of campaign was determined on he studied her map with the
greatest care before going West to consolidate the troops for the
coming campaign.

The second map sent in with Miss Carroll's paper of October, 1862,
when the army before Vicksburg was meeting with disastrous failure,
was made on regular map paper, representing the fortifications at
Vicksburg, demonstrating that they could not be taken on the plan then
adopted and indicating the right course to pursue. Miss Carroll bought
the paper for the map at Shillington's, corner of Four-and-a-Half
street and Pennsylvania avenue; sketched it out herself with blue and
red pencils and ink and took it to the War Department.

On page 24 of Miss. Doc. 58, Judge Wade writes:

"Referring to a conversation with Judge Evans last evening he called
my attention to Colonel Scott's telegram announcing the fall of Island
No. 10 in 1862 as endorsing your plan, when Scott said, 'the movement
in the rear has done the work.' I stated to the Judge, as you and he
knew before, that your paper on the reduction of Vicksburg had done
the work on that place, after being so long baffled and with the loss
of so much life and treasure by trying to take it from the water; that
to my knowledge your paper was approv