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Anna Ella Carroll

Anna Ella Carroll

Broadcast: June 2, 1941
Added: Jun 29 2014

Today's story of Anna Ella Carroll, the great unrecognised member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, who worked obscurely but decisively for the President and for the principal of his great struggle, unity in America. Our story begins on a warm day in Washington, not many years after the close of the Civil War. In the House of Representatives a few scattered Congressmen are listening to the Clerk, as he reads what they believe to be a routine Bill. There is only one spectator in the gallery, a little old woman...