e abstracted from the files
twice. Send a letter to General Banning. Tell Judge Evans to ask the
General to appoint a sub-committee to investigate it, so as to submit
it to the general committee. Tell them all, and remind them that when
one report was made in the Senate Committee by Mr. Howard the papers
were abstracted from the files, as the Secretary of the Committee,
Rev. Samuel Hunt, will testify. I hope the report will be a very
emphatic and explicit one in setting forth your plan as you took it to
Colonel Scott. It makes the strongest foundation to commence upon in
the sub-committee. There will undoubtedly be a minority of
Republicans, and it will be so much the better for that, because they
can find no evidence to invalidate the report of the majority, and I
would like to see them make the attempt. Being at the head of the War
Committee, I had most to do with it. The committee not half the time
were present. Nobody knows the difficulty the War Committee had to get
the army moved. We had almost to fight for that campaign."

Mr. Hunt writes from Natick, Mass.:

_March 7, 1876._

My Dear Miss Carroll:

I remember well your failure to recover twice all the papers you
intrusted to the charge of the Military Committee and our
inability to account for their loss.

Hoping you will have better success now, I remain as ever,

Very truly yours,

S. HUNT,
_Late Secretary of Senate Military Committee._

* * * * *

Senator Howard tells Miss Carroll she has a right to feel disappointed
that her claims should be neglected, but he says, "you know the great
power of the _military_, who don't want you to have the recognition."

"Senator Howard," she replies, "there is something in moral
integrity. I understand you, but just tell the _truth_. I ask only to
be sustained by truth, and am not afraid of this power."

"Miss Carroll," he says with emphasis, "you have done more for the
country than them all. You told and showed where to fight and how to
strike the rebellion upon its head. No one comprehends the magnitude
of that service more than I."

* * * * *

Judge Wade's remarks to Senator Wilson last of May, 1862 (as taken
down by a reporter):

Judge Wade said he talked just right to Wilson for the delay in Miss
Carroll's matter befo