Anna
Ella
(Anna Ella)
"Lady General"
Carroll
Born in Worcester, Maryland, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas King Carroll
and Juliana Stevenson
Sister of
Thomas King Carroll Jr and Ada C. (Carroll) Bowdle
Died
at age 78
in Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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| Created 7 Mar 2015
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Biography
Anna Ella Carroll is Notable.
An American politician, pamphleteer, and lobbyist against slavery
Anna Ella Carroll was born August 29, 1815, near Pocomoke City, Maryland, United States. She established a school for girls at her father's estate, Kingston Hall.
She played a significant role as an adviser to the Lincoln cabinet as a military strategist, known as "Lady General" during the American Civil War.
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She witnessed the Assassination of President Lincoln. Much has been written about Ann E. Carroll, the Lady General. Her love affair with Justice Lemuel Evans of Texas is not as well known, or the threat to her life if she crossed into Texas.
She grew up in Kingston Hall, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland which was the house of her father, Thomas King Carroll, governor of Maryland. He was a cousin to Charles, John, James Henry Carroll, (sources needed). This house held the contents of the descendants of the Princes of Ely; loot brought back from Ireland via Italy, including mahogany, candlesticks crafted by men of the Renaissance, tapestries and oriental rugs, padded needlepoint chairs, oil paintings of the second and third Lords Baltimore, Charles and Cecil Calvert and two copies of the Carroll Coat of Arms - one with wings folded, and the American one with wings spread. [1]
She died of Bright's disease (a kidney condition) on 19 February 1894. She is buried at Old Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery at Church Creek, Dorchester County, Maryland.
Sources
- ↑ ANNA ELLA CARROLL and ABRAHAM LINCOLN a biography, Greensbie. 1952, First Edition
- Sylvia Bradley, "Anna Ella Carroll, 1815-1894; Military Strategist - Political Propagandist," in Notable Maryland Women (Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1977), 62-70.
- Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, 1992. https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshallfame/html/carroll.html
See also:
- Wikipedia: Anna Ella Carroll
- Wikidata: Item Q2850491, en:Wikipedia
- Find A Grave: Memorial #11903155
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