Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed hearing from William Crozier, as will Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, who is doing better.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-12-01
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Crozier, William, 1855-1942
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
Theodore Roosevelt provides a satisfactory report on the short pointed army bullets that William Crozier had asked Roosevelt to try on his hunting trip.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1910-12-31
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates General Crozier’s article in the North American Review. He agrees that nations can arbitrate all matters after reaching “a certain static position in relation to one another,” such as between the United States and Canada. However, pacifists do not face real world facts and harm the country by leading to “tom-fool positions.” Roosevelt agrees with Crozier regarding Mexico but is not yet ready to state his views. He was interested in General Brugere’s letter and wishes he could serve with him in the war. However, Roosevelt is not willing to fight unless he is leading American troops and believes he could raise a division similar to the Rough Riders.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-12-11
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt asks General Crozier to report to him when the Patterson method of carrying rifles on horseback has been tested.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-27
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt thanks Brigadier General Crozier for his letter, and says that it sounds like the best thing for him to do is to leave things alone.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-07-17
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt asks Brigadier General Crozier if there is a short-barrelled Springfield rifle that is as accurate as the long-barrelled one he currently has. If there is, Roosevelt would like to have one stocked and sighted like his present one.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-07-13
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt asks William Crozier, the Chief of Ordinance, to evaluate the design of an armor piercing projectile invented by Roosevelt’s old friend, Clayton Rockhill.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-07-17
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt informs Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance Crozier that he has appointed him as a member of the Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural Materials as the representative of the Army’s Ordinance Department. Roosevelt lays out the position’s duties and encloses a list of other people he has invited to become members of the board.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-12-05
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
The rifle is a “little beauty” and President Roosevelt appreciates the trouble General Crozier has taken. Roosevelt sends his thanks to Colonel Phipps for his workmanship and R. T. Hare for sighting the rifle. He also requested a custom case and cartridges.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-02-06
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt would like the new rifle’s trigger to have the same pull as the rifle he sent.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-11-23
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt has sent his Winchester rifle so that a new Springfield carbine can be made for him along similar lines. The sights should be reduced and the butt made one inch shorter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-11-17
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt encloses the Revue des Deux Mondes and an article on the China relief expedition by the commander of the French contingent.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-10-06
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt has appointed Brigadier General Crozier to a committee that will report “upon the organization, present condition, and needs of the Executive Government work wholly or partially scientific in character.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-03-13
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
President Roosevelt has appointed Brigadier General Crozier to a committee that will report “upon the organization, present condition, and needs of the Executive Government work wholly or partially scientific in character.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-03-11
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Letter from Frank Heath to William Crozier
Colonel Heath delivers the results of the requested quantitative analysis of the two different ball cartridges manufactured at the Frankford Arsenal. He reports that antimony is nearly always present in commercial lead and tin.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12-12
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Letter from Frank Heath to William Crozier
Colonel Heath, Commander of Frankford Arsenal, informs Chief of Ordnance Brigadier General Crozier that antimony is not used in bullet cores constructed at the Frankford Arsenal. He has no Union Metallic cartridges on hand, but he has a record of their chemical analysis from May 1906 which shows their bullet cores being 8.36% antimony. Since the Union Metallic Company Cartridges were sent directly from the company’s manufacturer to Watervilet Arsenal, Heath suggests performing a chemical analysis of those bullets.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12-09
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Letter from Frank Heath to William Crozier
Colonel Heath of the Frankford Arsenal reports to Chief of Ordnance General Crozier that Alexander S. Cassels inspected finished bullets for the Union Metallic Cartridge Company but paid no attention to their composition or whether antimony was used. Heath directs attention to the chemical analysis report from January 1, 1906, that shows Union Metallic Cartridge Company bullets contained antimony.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12-10
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Crozier
Theodore Roosevelt has sent over his Winchester rifle, so William Crozier can have one of the new Springfield carbines made like it. Roosevelt would like the sights reproduced exactly and the butt of the gun should be one inch shorter.
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Creation Date
1903-11-17
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Letter from Frank H. Phipps to William Crozier
Due to difficulties in sighting President Roosevelt’s Luger pistol, the Ordnance Department has run out of the proper ammunition. Lieutenant Colonel Phipps has contacted the Union Metallic Cartridge Company to inquire if they make a a suitable cartridge. If they do not, there might not be a vendor in the country that sells the proper ammunition.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-02
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Letter from Frank H. Phipps to William Crozier
Cartridges for the Luger pistol have been ordered from Winchester.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-05