d the following letter:

NEWBURGH, N. Y., _February 6, 1873_.

My Dear Madam:

I am much obliged for the pamphlet you sent me. I never knew
before with whom the plan of the campaign up the Tennessee river
originated. There seemed to be a mystery attached to it that I
could not solve. Though General Buell sent me an immense amount
of documents relating to this campaign I could find no reference
to the origin of the change of plan. Afterwards I saw it
attributed to Halleck, which I knew to be false, and I noticed
that he never corroborated it. It is strange that after all my
research it has rested with you to enlighten me.

Money cannot pay for the plan of that campaign. I doubt not
Congress will show not liberality but some justice in the matter.

Yours very sincerely,

J. T. HEADLEY.

So matters went on. New memorials presented for the most part met with
"leave to withdraw." Then Miss Carroll gathered herself up for a
supreme effort, presented fresh testimony, and in 1878 sent in a
memorial that is a mine of wealth and the most interesting memorial
she has ever presented. It is labeled--

45th Congress, \ House of Representatives / Miss. Doc.
2d Session / \ No. 58

Being a document of the first importance and containing some singular
evidence, it has been systematically excluded from every Congressional
index, though published by order of Congress and included in the bound
volumes.

Miss Carroll having made in 1878 this very notable memorial, on
February 18, 1879--

45th Congress,\ Senate /Report
3d Session. / \ No. 775.

Mr. Cockrell made a report entered on the Congressional lists as
_adverse_, but really an additional evidence of the incontrovertible
nature of the facts and the testimony of the case, the report being
only adverse as to compensation. The report admits the services, both
literary and military, and even concedes the proposition that "_the
transfer of the national armies from the banks of the Ohio up the
Tennessee river to the decisive position in Mississippi was the
greatest military event in the interest of the human race known to
modern ages, and will ever rank among the very few strategic movements
in the world's history that have decided the fate of empires and
peoples_," and that "_no true h