soldiers' wives a lively interest in
the work of their great coadjutor. Tokens of recognition were sent to
Miss Carroll, and many a retired veteran, beside his evening fire, put
down his name to petitions for her just recognition. Then this brave
lady made another effort. She published in the Boston _Sunday Herald_,
of February, 1890, an account, from which we give the following
extract, having already given extracts from the earlier portion:

"In the last year so many women throughout the country had come
to take an interest in this case, petitions to Congress asking
for Miss Carroll's suitable recognition and remuneration were
sent in considerable numbers, some being presented in the Senate
by Mr. Hoar and some in the House by Mr. Lodge. In September
last, at an interview with these gentlemen in Boston, I learned
it to be their opinion that if I made a plea in Miss Carroll's
behalf before the two Congressional Committees on Military
Affairs an interest might be aroused to lead to successful
results. I therefore promised to visit Washington, and went to
the city in the second week in February of the present year.

"The bill calling for an appropriation from Congress for Miss
Carroll's services during the civil war, such services consisting
of the preparation of papers used as war measures and the
furnishing of the military plan for our western armies, known as
the plan of the Tennessee campaign, had already been presented in
the Senate by General Manderson, of Nebraska, and in the House by
Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts. As Mr. Hoar was ill when I arrived
in Washington, he wrote a letter to Mr. Manderson, asking for an
early hearing for me, and then sent his private secretary to
conduct me to that gentleman in person. I write particulars of
the obtaining of these hearings simply to show that even a case
demanding urgent action like this finds unexpected obstacles that
threaten to retard it indefinitely.

"Mr. Manderson met me kindly, but stated that the committee had
such a pressure of business on hand it seemed impossible to take
time for Miss Carroll's case, greatly as some of the members had
it at heart. But on my replying that I represented the wishes of
many women, and we could appeal nowhere else in order for this
injustice to be righted, he said if I would come to t