United States. War Department, “William Carroll from Edwin M. Stanton,” Digital Collections, accessed February 16, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/9372.
Letter from Secretary of War Edwin Stanton informing Carroll of the leadership of his son Samuel Sprigg Carroll during a recent advance by the Army of the Shenandoah. In it Stanton expresses his hopes for a promotion for his son.