Publisher's Synopsis
Anna Ella Carroll, a politically active woman, usually a Republican, who was the architect of Lincoln's military plan to cut the CSA in half, many see her as one of the most significant and influential, if bigoted and controversial, figures of 19th-century American political thought.;"The Great American Battle" is her magnum opus. This edited edition contains an introduction, and notes of explanation on the text, clarifying for the reader some of Carroll's references and allegories. The introductory section discusses the two people who figure prominently in the manuscript, former President Millard Fillmore (many thought she and he would wed after his wife died) and Bishop Hughes, the object of many of Carroll's attacks.
