Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George von Lengerke Meyer
President Roosevelt considers the possible outcomes of the conflict between the Russians and Japanese.
Collection
Massachusetts Historical Society
Creation Date
1905-05-24
Your TR Source
Military campaigns
Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Leonard Wood
John Campbell Greenway encloses a letter he wrote to John Appleton Stewart which explains Greenway’s position on Wood’s candidacy for president of the United States. Greenway comments on the excitement at the border after Pancho Villa’s attack. The reports of a putative expedition against Villa are “refreshing news.”
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Creation Date
1916-03-12
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Patty Selmes
Colonel Roosevelt finally has a tent, secretary, and typewriter so he can work on his correspondence. He regrets that he is mostly writing to the families of dead and wounded men. The campaign has been rough with hard fighting but the regiment has performed well. The “cowpuncher” and university men have both been able to show their grit. Robert Harry Munro Ferguson has done well and was promoted to lieutenant. There were many unpleasant experiences but the charge up San Juan Hill “paid for it all many times over.”
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Creation Date
1898-07-31
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has received Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s letter. Ferguson’s equipment will be furnished and Roosevelt will telegraph Ferguson when he is needed. He suggests bringing a rubber blanket and plaid.
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Creation Date
1898-04-29
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Henry V. up to date
In a battle, at a breach in the “Tariff Wall,” “Trusts, Monopoly, [and] Stand Pat” forces are being led by a king labeled “American Protective Tariff League.” They are repelling invaders fighting for “Fair Trade” and “Honest Revision.” Caption: “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more / Or close the wall up with our Standpat dead!”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1909-05-12
Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of War Taft informs President Roosevelt that he spoke to the bureau heads and Generals James Franklin Bell and Fred C. Ainsworth upon his return. He details the plans devised by the Army General Staff for three expeditions to Cuba. If military intervention is warranted, Taft favors “going with as much force as we can command, …to end the business at once.” He suggests Roosevelt inquire of Attorney General William H. Moody if they have the right to intervene in Cuba without asking permission of Congress.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-15
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Asa Bird Gardiner
Theodore Roosevelt is touched by a letter from Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner. Roosevelt also thanks Gardiner for his memorandum on the “Mexican situation,” likely referring to the Pancho Villa Expedition, part of the Border War during the Mexican Revolution.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916-05-03
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Puzzled
William II, German Emperor, stands among papers, looking puzzled, holding a long sheet of paper that lists successful U.S. military campaigns during the Spanish-American War. Caption: William the Greatest–Himmelkreuzdonnerwetter!! That those Yankees should do these things without a consecrated ruler to tell them how!!!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-08-10
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“The independents fought nobly!”
In the aftermath of a battle, David B. Hill is draped over a cannon, while Charles A. Dana and many New York politicians, identified as “Croker, Grant, Hinckley, Sheehan, Gilroy, Murphy, McLaughlin, Smyth, [and] Divver,” as well as the Tammany Tiger, appear to have some wound or injury. Puck is standing on the right holding a military standard that states, “The Principles We Fought For. Free Raw Materials – Civil Service Reform – Honest Money – Economical Government.” Caption: Puck–It is for the benefit of any party to be purified of its baser elements!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1894-11-21
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No party lines when the national honor is in peril
The combined forces of the gold standard supporters, including some newspaper editors, and a reluctant William McKinley, march under the standard “The Nation’s Credit Must Be Upheld,” toward a fort labeled “Fort 16 to 1” flying the banner “Repudiation,” and manned by soldiers armed with pitchforks and scythes. The newspaper editors are staffing the big guns labeled “Sound Money Press.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-07-22
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Ross McCoy
As President and personal friend, President Roosevelt congratulates Captain McCoy on his campaign against Datto Ali.
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Creation Date
1906-01-03
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Stanley expedition of 1873
Summary of the Stanley expedition of 1873.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
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Stanley expedition of 1872
Summary of the Stanley expedition of 1872 on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
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Excerpts from the Avant Courier
Excerpts from the Avant Courier with information on Major H. M. Lazelle’s 1877 expedition to the Powder and Little Missouri Rivers.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1877
Creator(s)
Letter from Henry Glass to William H. Moody
Admiral Glass reports on the ships under his command which are stationed off the coast of Panama and monitoring the Panamanian revolution. American forces are preparing an intelligence map of the isthmus while scouting the Darien region and canal zone.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-01-04
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Letter from W. C. Bowie to Theodore Roosevelt
W. C. Bowie sends some photographs that were taken when General Funston’s expedition was picked up after their mission along the east coast of Luzon in search of Emilio Aguinaldo.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-08-25
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Dispatch from Associated Press correspondent delivered to Captain Sigsbee
The dispatch, which was printed in a variety of Associated Press newspapers on May 30 and May 31, 1898, reveals that American warships have located and trapped the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The Americans have also captured a coal ship meant for the Spanish fleet. The dispatch also reports that the temperature is 110 degrees in the shade, and that the American warships involved include the Brooklyn, Texas, Massachusetts, Iowa, Marblehead, and Vixen.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-05-29