annaellacarroll.info
Star of the Eastern Shore
Portrait of Anna Ella Carroll from
Maryland Historical Society Library of Maryland History
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ANNA ELLA CARROLL
(1815 - 1894)
Anna Ella Carroll was the daughter of Thomas King Carroll, Governor of the State of Maryland in 1860 and 1861. She was active with the American Party and wrote many influential pamphlets, some of which were printed by the White House Printing Office and given to Congress presumably to help educate them on matters relating to the Constitution, of which she was very well educated by her father.
There is a great deal of controversy over how much influence she had on the Lincoln Administration, specifically the Tennessee Plan, which she submitted to Congress November 30th, 1861. Others who later took credit for the plan claim she submitted her version in writing after it was already decided upon. The Tennessee Plan is widely considered to be one of the greatest pieces of military strategy in world history because it snatched up victory from the jaws of defeat, enabling the Union to win the War of the States.
10/28/09
Well, it's been a long time since I started this project and I am not very happy to say I have had to shelve it many times while other priorities took over in my life. However, I have managed to transcribe the first and arguably most important pamphlet which is now here for all to read and study. Also a FaceBook page has been made to replace the bulletin board which was getting spammed too much.
This is Miss Carroll's most important pamphlet, in my opinion, as it lays out the legal underpinning for the Emancipation Proclamation. Please use it for your research as the originals are all falling apart. I have a good set of copies of an original from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library which I will also be posting for archival purposes but the transcription here has been made with indications of all original pages and formatted as closely to the original as I could get it. There is a Word Document as well as an HTML version plus a list of corrections that I made to the original which I deemed necessary for clarity. (For now, the HTML versions have some symbols inserted erroneously due to the Word conversion-this will be fixed soon.). Further modifications to the site and the contents may be made in the near future as I hope this milestone will cause me to continue with this long awaited project.
The Relation of National Government to the Revolted Citizens Defined:
[Word Document] [HTML version] [Corrections: Word Doc - HTML]
9/28/07
This website is being designed to provide documented information to researchers. In the next few months, some of her more important pamphlets and the entire Senate Miscellanneous Documents will be posted here in HTML and PDF formats for study. A bulletin board has been set up and will also be available for research questions and whatever topics may be useful. Links to various related websites and information will also be collected here. Always refresh the pages in case there have been updates.
My name is Ted Keylon and I am a living history actor in Springfield, IL. I became interested in Miss Carroll after having portrayed the painter Francis B. Carpenter who painted "The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the Cabinet." An author who was working on her Ph.D. saw my performance and asked where the empty chair was, referring to the legend of the painting which claims that Carpenter painted an extra chair for Miss Carroll because he considered her the unrecognized member of Lincoln's Cabinet. After researching at the Illinois State Library and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, I became fascinated with her story.
Here is a list of what will be here next:
• First Pamphlet to be posted: The Relation of National Government to the Revolted Citizens
• Bibliography
If you have any questions, my email address for this site is: ted@tedkeylon.com.
Letters to the Admin:
Tue, 6 Nov 2007
Cool website!
Hi there,
Just wanting to wish you luck straight away in your quest to uncover the
life of Anna Ella Carroll. If what I have read is true, this is one heck of a
remarkable woman whose story ought to be uncovered. I personally became aware
of and interested in her through my personal interest in family genealogy.
Because she never married and bore no children, she is not looked into much
and so the dust settles. In some ways, I compare her to Clara Barton, but
there is much to be learned.
Mind you, [she] does have quite an ancestry!
Best of luck,
Kim
Dallas
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