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Your research worked wonders! Congratulations. And, you just took the pressure off of Joe Beckert. I had told him the answer, but swore him to secrecy unless no one else came up with it. It has been killing him to know the answer, but not be able to post it!

Anna Ella Carroll was from a very distinguished Maryland family that believed in females getting a good education. During the decade before the Civil War, she became an outstanding pamphleteer in favor of abolition and also other political issues. She also considered herself a military adviser and claimed that she was the one that found the best approach to capturing the full Mississippi was via the Tennessee River (something about the direction in which it ran??).

There have been two books written on Carroll, both of them historical novels. The only title I can remember is something like Lady With the Sword. Here's another good website on Miss Carroll: http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibit...rroll.html