ize the
remarkable and invaluable nature of the services rendered.

Congress having thus received the report made by their own Military
Committee appointed for the purpose, for reasons plainly given by Mr.
Wade and others, at once ignored it, tossing it over to the Court of
Claims, who would have nothing to do with it, and so that Congress
adjourned.

Then followed that singular and disheartening feature of congressional
committees.

Action having been taken, a Military Committee appointed, and a
conclusive report made, Congress could utterly neglect it, and at the
following Congress the previous action would count for nothing, and
the whole wearisome proceeding of a new memorial, a new effort to
procure attention, a new examination of evidence, a new report, a new
bill, and again utter neglect. But the brave woman continued. She was
really fighting alone and at terrible odds another Tennessee campaign
for the rightful recognition of woman's work.

Accordingly, the following year another memorial was sent in, another
committee appointed, renewed testimony given by Scott, Wade, Evans,
and others. Mr. Wilson testified that the claim was "incontestably
established," referred to the evidence given in Miss Carroll's own
memorial, but for want of time made no regular report, apparently,
except this:

_Report._

"Mr. Wilson, on behalf of the Committee on Military Affairs, laid
before the Senate the memorial of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland,
setting forth certain valuable military information given to the
Government by her during the war and asking compensation
therefor, which was ordered to be printed, together with a bill
rewarding her for military and literary services"--twice read in
United States Senate--amount left $----, to be filled by this
body. Then Congress again quietly dropped a recognition that
might interfere with party plans, and so _that_ Congress
adjourned.

And so the weary work went on of presenting new memorials and meeting
with the same neglect, Congress never denying the claim and none of
the military commanders making any claim or denying the facts.

Miss Carroll gave extracts from every known historical work showing
the surmises made, endeavoring to attribute the plan to one and
another, and no evidence found to establish such surmises.

Miss Carroll wrote to Hon. J. T. Headley, the distinguished historian
of the Civil War, and receive