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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to men who have volunteered for service in World War I

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to men who have volunteered for service in World War I

Theodore Roosevelt writes to the men who have volunteered for service in the firing lines during World War I to discuss his disappointment at being unable to join them, after President Wilson said Roosevelt could not reform the Rough Riders. Each man who was to be involved in the regiment can now join the military another way or serve his country in civil life. The funds that have been used for the regiment will be withdrawn and applied to another purpose. All four divisions would have sailed by September 1. Roosevelt challenges Wilson’s belief that the regiment would have only had a political impact and not contributed to the success of the war.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-05-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to F. V. Greene

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to F. V. Greene

Theodore Roosevelt will see F. V. Greene when he returns. He admires Greene’s enclosures but has two suggestions, which he discusses at length. First, Greene only needs to state that King of Prussia Frederick II’s approbation of George Washington seems to be a myth, as he never showed interest in Washington or the American Struggle. Roosevelt comments on Helmuth Moltke’s opinion of the Civil War and how France could have implemented similar cavalry tactics. His second suggestion is that it is incorrect to say that America’s action in the peace settlement of the Russo-Japanese War did not produce the current hostile relationships with Russia and Japan. He discusses the other factors involved.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John A. Wyeth

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John A. Wyeth

Theodore Roosevelt tells Dr. Wyeth, a Confederate veteran and founder of the Polyclinic Hospital in New York, that he does not know what America should do with Mexico, but that he agrees with most of what Wyeth wrote in his article “The United States and Mexico” in the July 1915 edition of The North American Review. (In this article, Wyeth says the solution to Mexico’s problems is for the United States to annex Mexico.) Roosevelt remarks that this attitude is exactly what he would expect from Wyeth as a former soldier of Confederate cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest, of whom Wyeth had also written a biography.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919