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Special orders, no. 161

Special orders, no. 161

Extract from the official orders assigning Quentin Roosevelt to active duty with the Aviation section with the Signal Officers’ Reserve Corps. A stamped seal noted this is an official copy of the summons.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1917-07-13

Military record of Albert Leopold Mills

Military record of Albert Leopold Mills

This document reports the significant moments in Albert Leopold Mills’s military career. Highlights include his extensive career as a military instructor, his involvement in campaigns against the Crow and Sioux, as well as the battles at Santiago and Las Guasimas in Cuba, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Colonel John W. Vrooman reports in a letter to William Loeb, which encloses this document, that this copy represents what was contained within the “beautiful engrossed album containing nineteen parchment pages enclosed in a handsome leather cover.” The album was a souvenir at the Union League Club dinner celebrating General Mills on August 29, 1906.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-06

General orders no. 118

General orders no. 118

As authorized by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Army Chief of Staff General Leonard Wood issues general orders regarding three issues. The first item concerns the sentence of James Huston. The second item is a notice that paragraphs 2 and 3 of General Orders, No. 186 issued by the War Department have been rescinded and substituted with the listed statements regarding the equitation training of officers at a mounted commands school, which is part of the prescribed garrison training. The third item advises that Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh has designated the City National Bank of Galveston, Texas, to succeed the Galveston National Bank for disbursing funds related to the War Department.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-24