Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-31

Creator(s)

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Recipient

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Language

English

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-31

Creator(s)

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Recipient

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Language

English

President Roosevelt wants Parker brought back from Venezuela at once and for Parker to not repeat any gossip he hears except to report it to his superior.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-21

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Secretary of War Taft forwards to Chief of Staff Chaffee correspondence from President Roosevelt inquiring into appointing a “colored contract surgeon.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-26

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

President Roosevelt does not think that Adna Romanza Chaffee could do more honorable work than becoming president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-19

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Recipient

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Language

English

President Roosevelt does not object to detailing Crane as Lieutenant General Chaffee suggested, commenting “a man may not be quite the right man for one position and yet do admirable work in another.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs General Chaffee that he is not to spend his own money while attending the French army maneuvers, and directs him to credit all expenditures for reasonable entertaining to the government.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is satisfied by Lieutenant General Chaffee’s letter, and approves his proposal to embark troops from the Gulf coast and land them at a North Atlantic port for practice.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks General Chaffee for the congratulations. Roosevelt saw the plans for the log hotel when he was in Yellowstone last year and thinks it must be beautiful.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt believes that Major General Chaffee has had considerable success in putting down the insurrection in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks General Chaffee for his military service in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt warns Lieutenant General Chaffee, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, that the Army should be wary of adopting too many methods of the Japanese army simply because of its recent success against the Russians. Roosevelt believes in particular its emphasis on bayonet practice would not fit the American military. Its arrangements in terms of quartermasters and commissaries, however, are admirable, and he encourages Chaffee to organize plans for embarking and provisioning an army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Current difficulties with the Moro Rebellion center around Bacolod and Masiu. General Davis believes that these locations must be invested and captured to prevent future hostilities. Davis supports Brigadier General Baldwin’s request for a field mortar and asks for a “mule packing outfit” to transport the weapon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-18

Creator(s)

Davis, George W. (George Whitefield), 1839-1918

The Sultan of Bacolod is causing problems; he is fortifying the area under his control and claims to be at war with a rival. Generals Davis and Baldwin believe he is only stalling in order to have time to harvest the season’s crop of rice and, once this is accomplished, will engage in hostilities with the United States. Davis will keep a watchful eye on the Sultan and maintain a correspondence with him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-19

Creator(s)

Davis, George W. (George Whitefield), 1839-1918

Colonel Constant Williams informs General Adna Chaffee that it will take some time to investigate the charges that Civil Governor James Ross raised about the military in the province of Ambos Camarines in the Philippines, and that his official report will therefore be delayed. Williams nevertheless sends a quick letter to clear up doubts about the attitude of the military towards the civil government. He says that the military has done everything it could to be helpful and cordial towards the civil government, and illustrates this by describing an instance of helping treat a cholera outbreak. He also addresses several charges that Ross brought forward including a recent fire, as well as the killing of a Filipino girl. Williams says that Ross seems to want to pick a fight with the military, but that he will not be drawn into a conflict.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-04

Creator(s)

Williams, Constant, 1843-1922

General Davis goes over several incidents between the Moros and United States military personnel in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-27

Creator(s)

Davis, George W. (George Whitefield), 1839-1918

In reference to potential hostilities with the Moros, Henry Clark Corbin tells Adna Romanza Chaffee to “do nothing that will impair our prestige or in any other way imperil the army.” If the demand for the “Moro murderers” is not fulfilled Chaffee is to use his own judgment to “bring about peace and order in the Island of Mindanao.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-23

Creator(s)

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

General Bell had previously informed General Corbin that he would be willing to return to the United States and take command of the Leavenworth School. However, he has been ordered to Batangas and does not want to leave until his work is finished. He would like General Chaffee to represent the matter to the War Department and request that the Leavenworth assignment be postponed for at least one year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-18

Creator(s)

Bell, James Franklin, 1856-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-11-15

Creator(s)

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Recipient

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Language

English