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Judge Jones is sending President Roosevelt the book Four Years under Marse Robert by Robert Stiles, a book about the author’s time serving in the Civil War under General Robert E. Lee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-19
Secretary of War Root presents the case of Colonel Edward Settle Godfrey. Godfrey does not retire until October 9, 1907. He served for three months during the American Civil War and was involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Root recommends no action be taken in the case.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-22
Summary of events at the annual meeting of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A resolution was passed thanking President Roosevelt for recognizing the new Republic of Panama and, by extension, endorsing the right of secession.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-03
On behalf of Colombia, General Ortiz protests against the presence of American warships in Colombian waters. Ortiz is unaware of a declaration of war and General Reyes is currently in Washington, D.C., attempting to negotiate a diplomatic solution to the difficulties with Panama. Ortiz compares the Colombian situation to the American Civil War and believes that “right and justice” are on the Colombian side.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-15
Daniel Edgar Sickles supports George E. Randolph for appointment to postmastership in Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-05
Eugene F. Ware does not think it is wise to issue pensions for members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers who are Civil War veterans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-11
Melvin C. Baldwin writes on behalf of locomotive engineers that served in the American Civil War and argues that they deserve government assistance in their old age.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-06
Secretary of War Root apologizes for the criticism directed at President Roosevelt for the form of the order made upon the retirement of General Nelson Appleton Miles. Precedent was followed and the order was exactly the same as others sent to Civil War generals of similar rank and service. Root views Miles as a “bad officer” and not in a class with the great leaders of the Civil War. An order praising Miles would have been full of falsehoods and hypocrisy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-19
James Rudolph Garfield writes to the Bureau of Corporations regarding information from the Civil Service Commission about waiving the age limit in the case of Civil War veterans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-08
Pamphlet summarizing and celebrating the military career of Colonel William Spencer McCaskey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-24
In a recent speech, Representative Humphreys suggested that some Southerners would be willing to accept a reduction of their representation in Congress in return for a repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Humphreys portrayed the amendment as an “incubus” that was sapping the South’s liberties. The article’s creator faults Humphreys for his ignorance and states that the Fifteenth Amendment will never be repealed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06
Sermon extracts from Rev. Dr. Dean R. Babbitt, Rev. Dr. David Gregg, and Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis regarding discrimination against African Americans in the south.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06
Post Commander William Henry Dill Blake sends Eugene F. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions, a roster of the Grand Army of the Republic Post 212 of New Paltz, New York. Blake congratulates Ware on “restoring …the confidence of the soldiers of the Union Army” in his department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-03
James McCormick Dalzell writes to President Roosevelt with a complaint against the Pension Office Commissioners regarding the pensions of Civil War veterans. Dalzell is angry and demands that the person responsible for wronging the veterans be fired.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-01
Extract from a May 1889 speech by William McKinley advocating the defense of African American constitutional rights.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06
General McCook’s recollections of the attack on Fort Stevens during the American Civil War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-03
Whitelaw Reid has been following the events of the Anthracite Coal Strike and is concerned that the strike’s length will hurt the Republican Party in the upcoming election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-13
Carl Frederick Rosecrans thanks President Roosevelt for attending a ceremony in honor of his father and allowing veterans employed by the government to have the day off work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-19
Henry G. Thomas asks President Roosevelt for a contribution to be deposited with other “articles which will be of interest to future generations” in the cornerstone of a soldier’s memorial currently under construction (Stowe, VT). The monument appears to honor soldiers from the American Civil War and Roosevelt is promised that any articles he deposits will not be read for many years to come.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-10
Edward Rosewater encloses an editorial from the Omaha Bee which he would like submitted to President Roosevelt that includes some comments by former Confederate President Davis that they would bring the sword and torch to the cities of the North. Davis denied having said that. Rosewater believes that there is too much sympathy “in eulogies of the secession leaders and generals.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-05