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RE: Who is this person? - J. Beckert - 11-21-2013
I think we got more mileage out of that than Moon Pies.
RE: Who is this person? - Anita - 11-21-2013
Who is this woman?
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 11-22-2013
Anna Ella Carroll.
RE: Who is this person? - Anita - 11-22-2013
Roger you are spot on. Your prize is a turkey that has been granted a pardon and needs a good home.
" Anna Carroll's role as a military strategist during the Civil War was controversial. President Lincoln sent her, accompanied by an army officer, to observe and report on the War on the western front. Her reports resulted in major military strategies that eventually doomed the Confederacy and ended the intervention of the European nations on the behalf of the South. The President and his Cabinet kept her authorship a secret; the public was not to know that the Union plans were devised by not only a civilian, but by a woman."
Read more about this amazing woman at http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/carroll.html
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 11-25-2013
Who is this lady?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 11-25-2013
Hint#1: She is often mentioned in the context of the assassination.
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 11-25-2013
Jeannie Gourlay?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 11-25-2013
Good guess, Roger, but it's not her.
Hint#2: She played a role later that night.
RE: Who is this person? - J. Beckert - 11-25-2013
That looks like a painting that pre-dates photography, which would make her older than most of the young cast. Also, the ringlets are making me think of a young Laura Keene. Did I win?
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 11-25-2013
Sorry, Joe, not yet.
Hint#3: She played a role at the Petersen House.
RE: Who is this person? - J. Beckert - 11-25-2013
O.K. - I'm thinking now she wasn't in the play, so I'll throw in that she is the wife of one of the Government Officials that went there to comfort MTL. French or Welles' wife?
RE: Who is this person? - Rogerm - 11-25-2013
I will go along with Joe and guess that this is Mrs. Welles who, I believe, comforted Mary Lincoln at the Petersen House.
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 11-25-2013
Sorry again, she's none of these ladies.
RE: Who is this person? - RJNorton - 11-25-2013
Ok, Eva, based on all your clues I'll go with Elizabeth Dixon.
RE: Who is this person? - Eva Elisabeth - 11-25-2013
That is correct, Roger, very good. You win my best wishes for a good day.