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WASHINGTON, D. C., _May 10, 1876_.

My Dear Miss Carroll:

Referring to the 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 he and you knew before, that your paper
on the reduction of Vicksburg did 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 approved and adopted by the Secretary of
War and the President, and immediately sent out to the proper
military authority in that Department.

I remember well their remarks upon it at that time, and of all
your other views and suggestions, made after we got the
expedition inaugurated, and know the direction they took. These
matters were often talked over as the campaign advanced, and in
the very last interview with Mr. Stanton, just before his death,
he referred to your services in originating the campaign in the
strongest terms he could express, and, as I have informed you,
stated that if his life was spared he would discharge the great
duty of seeing your services to the country properly recognized
and rewarded. But why need I say more. Your claim is established
beyond controversy, unless the witnesses are impeached, and I
hardly think they would undertake that business. What motive
could any of us have had to mislead or falsify the history of the
war. Your claim is righteous and just, if ever there was one, and
for the honor of my country I trust and hope you will be suitably
rewarded and so declared before the world.

Yours truly,

B. F. WADE.

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Miss Carroll's after papers, so far as I can learn, were mainly on
emancipation, on the ballot, and on reconstruction.

CHAPTER VI.

CONGRESSIONAL REVELATIONS -- GREAT RESULTS -- DISCUSSIONS -- MISS
CARROLL PRESENTS HER CLAIM -- POLITICAL OPPOSITION -- LETTERS AND
TESTIMONY.

Very curious is the picture revealed by the Congressional records.
Fully as Lincoln and his Military Committee recognize the