Though she was unknown to fame, Thomas A.Benton used to say that she had more to do with making and ending the Mexican War than anybody else.
Somewhere in the early thirties she had gone with her newly wedded husband, an adventurous Yankee by the name of Storm, to the Rio Grande and started a settlement they called Eagle Pass.

Storm died, the Texas outbreak began, and the young widow was driven back to San Antonio, where she met and married Casneau, one of Houston's lieutenants, like herself a New Yorker.

She was sent by Polk with Pillow and Trist to the City of Mexico and actually wrote the final treaty.

It was she who dubbed William Walker "the little gray-eyed man of destiny," and put the nickname "Old Fuss and Feathers" on General Scott, whom she heartily disliked.
[Illustration: Henry Clay--Painted at Ashland by Dodge for the Hon.
Andrew Ewing of Tennessee--The Original Hangs in Mr.Watterson's Library at "Mansfield"] A braver, more intellectual woman never lived.

She must have been a beauty in her youth; was still very comely at fifty; but a born insurrecto and a terror with her pen.