A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of Lincoln's Cabinet,") Compiled from Family Records and Congressional Documents
Washington: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First prinring. Black and white plates. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. xvi, 168 pages.
Biography of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, and a renewal of her claim of having been an important advisor to President Lincoln and that she was responsible for the Union's 1862 Tennessee River campaign. Miss Carroll was the daughter of a former Maryland Governor and a great-granddaughter of Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence. She wrote some well-considered pamphlets on governmental war powers at the beginning of the Civil War.
Ref.: DORNBUSCH Vol III, #2528; NEVINS Vol II, p. 39.
Bound in brown cloth over boards with black double rule borders and corner ornaments to both boards. Gilt titling on upper board is dulled and not very legible. Interior clean and sound. Very good overall.
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