ll showed this letter to Mrs. Hussey, who copied and
immediately published it.

Miss Carroll, who had always been on friendly terms with General
Grant, spoke to him of her claim. They conversed together concerning
her work. He assured her that he had not been aware of its extent, and
advised her by all means to continue to push her claim. I have seen
the draft of a letter, written by Miss Carroll at this time, to
General Grant in which she alludes to the advice he had given her to
push her claim before Congress. The letter is written in the
friendliest spirit and in a tone of touching modesty. It should be
here noted that there never was any antagonism between these two who
had done such great work for the salvation of their country.

Cassius M. Clay wrote to the editor of the New York _Sun_ the
following letter, as published in that journal:

WHITE HALL, KENTUCKY, _March 3, 1886_.

In 1861, as soon as I could get General Scott apart from his
staff of rebel sympathizers, I advised him to reach the Southern
forces by all the water-ways, as the shortest and most practical
lines of attack. This advice was hardly necessary as every tyro
in the Union Army would probably have done the same. But it
belonged to Miss Anna Ella Carroll to project and force upon the
bewildered army officers--Halleck, Grant, and others--the cutting
in two of the Confederacy by way of the Tennessee river by means
of the gunboats, and of our facilities of thus concentrating
troops and supplies. It was the great strategical coup of the
war.

I call the attention of the American nation to Miss Carroll's
article in the April number of the _North American Review_ of
1886. It appears that the splendid conception of this project
called for the immediate reward of a grateful Congress as the
representative of the whole people. But when it was found that it
was neither Grant, nor Halleck, nor Buell, but a woman, who
showed more genius and patriotism than all the army of military
men, the resolution was suppressed and the combined effort of
many of the ablest men of the Republican party could never
resurrect it. Miss Carroll merely states her case. There is no
event in history better backed up-with impregnable evidence.

CASSIUS M. CLAY.

Mr. Clay also wrote to Mrs. Hussey the fol