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President Roosevelt thanks Joseph Bucklin Bishop for his editorial and intends to take up the Philippine question when he speaks at Arlington National Cemetery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
President Roosevelt is hesitant to answer those particular gentlemen because he believes that everything that needed to be said can be found in his Arlington speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-02
President Roosevelt was happy to hear from Lyman Abbott regarding Roosevelt’s Arlington speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-03
President Roosevelt thanks Corporal Daniel L. Webster for the courtesy shown to his son at Arlington National Cemetery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-31
George B. Cortelyou responds to a request from Henry G. Thomas for a contribution by President Roosevelt of something to be deposited in the Soldiers’ Memorial in Stowe, Vermont. At the President’s request, Cortelyou sends a sentence from Roosevelt’s speech at Arlington National Cemetery, on the occasion of the reburial of Major General William S. Rosecrans: “Doing the duty well is what counts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-19
Lillian Capron, President of the Rough Riders’ National Monument Society, sends President Roosevelt a drawing of a proposed Rough Riders monument at Arlington National Cemetery; she asks Roosevelt for his blessing and assistance with the completion of this monument as he was the Colonel of the Rough Riders. Capron’s husband died in the Spanish American War and was a member of Roosevelt’s regiment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-17
John B. Bellinger informs Adolph von Haake that his request for a particular lot in Arlington National Cemetery has been denied because volunteer officers are not assigned in advance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-13
Adolph Von Haake asks President Roosevelt to intervene to allow Von Haake and his wife to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Von Haake’s application was denied because he served as a Volunteer, rather than as a Regular officer. He argues that since Arlington was designated as a National Cemetery because of the Civil War, soldiers who fought in that war have a right to be buried there regardless of whether they were Volunteers or Regulars.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-15
President Roosevelt speaks at the reburial of William S. Rosencrans at Arlington National Cemetery. Roosevelt honors veterans of the American Civil War, like Rosencrans, without whom, “the work of Washington would have crumbled into bloody chaos.” Roosevelt asserts that without the work of the soldiers in the Civil War, the accomplishments of soldiers in the Revolutionary War would have meant nothing. Roosevelt also declares that it does not matter what rank one held in the army, as long as he did his duty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-17
Review of the speech President Roosevelt gave about the Philippines at Arlington National cemetery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-31
Newspaper article praising President Roosevelt for his speech at Arlington. It was the first time Roosevelt had publicly spoken about lynching. It also addresses both the positive and negative reviews of the speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05
“You put it just right at Arlington on Memorial Day.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-31
Charles Emory Smith was pleased with President Roosevelt’s Arlington speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-02
Anita D. Rosecrans thanks President Roosevelt for attending and speaking at the internment of General Rosecrans in Arlington National Cemetery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-28