History, Military

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-20

Creator(s)

Hanrick, Ripley A. (Ripley Arnold), 1872-1953

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

General Buckner praises Archibald Gracie’s depth of research into the previously unwritten history of the Battle of Chickamauga.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-10

General Lee read Archibald Gracie’s letter about the Battle of Chickamauga with great interest. He compliments Gracie’s research and writing abilities. Gracie’s manuscript summarizes the battle well and Lee believes it will be the true history. He realizes much that is not true history will be recorded as such. Only historians and men like Gracie will arrive at the truth when all participants are dead.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-12

Admiral Dewey has read John W. Vrooman’s address at the Founders and Patriots meeting, which cleared up for Dewey the missed junction of American and British troops from John Burgoyne and Barry St. Leger’s regiments during the Saratoga Campaign of 1777. Dewey hopes Vrooman might one day also write about French Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse’s action that lead to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. Dewey and his wife Mildred McLean Dewey look forward to the visit of Vrooman and his wife, Anna Ford Vrooman.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-29