“ Mr. Lincoln and the war department, perceiving Miss Carroll's ability, engaged her to continue to write in support of the government. At their suggestion she prepared a pamphlet on the war powers of the government. Copies of two editions of this pamphlet may be seen side by side in the bound volumes of manuscript in the Suite department. That paper was followed by one on the "Power of the President to suspend the writ of halieas corpus," and later a paper on "Reconstruction," showing that emancipation could come only as a war measure, the State constitutions giving no opening for emancipation. ”

“ The examination was made at President Lincoln's express desire. When Miss Carroll was preparing her war papers, it was suggested to her by Sir. Lincoln that sue should go to St Louis and endeavor to form an opinion of the probable success or failure of a most important expedition preparing to descend the Mississippi by means of gun-boats. It was a critical time. The Union armies were costing the government two millions a day, and up to that time had met with little else than defeat. ”

“ Although this report was adverse to congressional recognition and award, it admitted the services, both literary and military, even conceding 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 m the world's history that have decided the fate of empires and people " ”