Armed Forces--Mobilization

Lieutenant General Chaffee sends a map to President Roosevelt that details the Japanese troops’ positions at Port Arthur.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-01

Ambassador Meyer describes to William Loeb revolutionary events such as strikes, disturbances, and a mutiny taking place in Lodz, Libau, and Odessa, Russia. Meyer cannot foretell what would happen if Japan does not agree to an armistice and conquers the Russian Army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-03

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to say they know he is at Port Said and to give updates on Belle, Ethel, Ethel’s husband Richard and the grandchildren. Roosevelt says he is glad all his sons were able to go abroad and fight and that the military training camps suffer from a lack of preparation. He has been speaking, writing and spending time with Mother.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-09-11

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to congratulate him on being made a Captain in the British army and gives updates on Quentin, Archie and Ted Roosevelt. Ethel Roosevelt Derby’s son Richard had his appendix out and her husband Richard Derby is eager to ship off to the war. Roosevelt says he is keeping busy with trivial work and rowing with Mother.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-08-08

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit and daughter-in-law Belle to say he sent letters to Arthur Hamilton Lee and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Lloyd George regarding a commission for Kermit in the British military in Mesopotamia. He also says that Ted and Archie Roosevelt sailed for Europe today and Ethel’s husband Richard Derby is eager to go as well. Quentin will be leaving next month.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-06-20

W. E. Dame informs Captain Tighe that his application to volunteer has been denied, as applicants must be between the ages of 25 and 40.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-05-18

A tattered, but happy, Russian army returns home after the end of the war with Japan. In the background, the rising sun of Japan is visible on the horizon.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Carl Hassmann’s double-page cartoon in Puck at the end of hostilities in the Far East — where the bold symbol of Japan, the sun, clearly rises; it is not setting, as history learned — is a very sardonic portrayal of the international situation. If anything, his depiction of the defeated Russian army as happy, though sotted, as retaining riches and even singing and occasionally smiling, was scarcely true, even in a cartoonist’s metaphor.

Theodore Roosevelt discusses his personnel goals if he receives permission to raise a division to go to war against Mexico.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-07-01

President Roosevelt thanks Booker T. Washington for the article from the Tribune and tells Washington he had no authority to send troops to Atlanta to aid during the riots. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-08

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Taft what he has done about moving more troops into Idaho.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-18

This memorandum details the number of marines that could be assembled to send to Cuba, and how many would remain at various ports. It also lists the number of marines serving on board ships currently in North Atlantic waters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-15

Jacob Sleeper, chargé d’affaires in Cuba, informs Secretary of State Elihu Root that the situation in Cuba is somewhat improved. The Cuban government is recruiting heavily to increase their forces and is offering amnesty to any rebels who lay down their arms.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-28

Ambassador Meyer writes to President Roosevelt regarding Meyer’s discussion of the Russian situation with French official Maurice Rouvier. Meyer mentions that Rouvier is concerned about the impact of the Russian securities downfall on France’s financial situation, yet German official Bernhard Bülow has a more positive outlook. Next, Meyer describes his dinner meeting with Emperor William II who commented on Roosevelt’s cablegram messages, remarks, and stance regarding a tariff and treaty. Meyer then goes into detail about Russian strikes and the potential plans for deploying Russian Cossack troops to help keep things in order.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-06

United States Ambassador to Russia Meyer reports to Acting Secretary of State Loomis that the conditions in Russia are worsening due to the inactivity and secrecy of the Russian government. The revolutionists are making progress, and this aggravates the situation both at home and in Manchuria. Emperor Nicholas II makes promises, but cannot deliver on them because of bureaucracy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-07

The Office of Naval Intelligence reports on current geographical considerations as well as troop and warship positions related to the Russo-Japanese War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-12

Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as a Rough Rider, tells a moose carrying a bayonet that this could be “our last mobilization.” Roosevelt carries a paper labeled “Fall 1914 Campaign” and stands in the Progressive camp. The G.O.P. Camp is on the other hill with a cannon pointed at Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914

Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept due to a busy schedule. He hopes William Roscoe Thayer will attend the breakfast hosted by William Sturgis Bigelow. Roosevelt has doubts that the Wilson administration is seriously intending to put an effective army in the field. He thinks the administration is delaying in the hope that peace will arrive.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-01-18

Theodore Roosevelt criticizes the government for a lack of military preparedness and for its mobilization failures. This article appeared in The Great Adventure, published in New York in 1918.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918

If Theodore Roosevelt is allowed to raise a division for military service, he would be pleased to enroll Major Shipton.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1916-07-19

Assistant Secretary Roosevelt escorted the newly commissioned John Jacob Astor to see Senator Thomas Collier Platt, Secretary of the Interior Bliss, and President William McKinley. Roosevelt is doing the “exasperating work” of moving arms and equipment around the usual delays. It will be a few days before he can join Leonard Wood for military service with the 1st Volunteer Cavalry.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1898-05-10