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Theodore Roosevelt hopes General Wood will accept D. T. Abercrombie into the Plattsburg Camp, a private military preparedness camp to prepare upper-class college graduates for service as officers. Roosevelt assures Wood that although Abercrombie is 49 he is more able than many younger men.
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1915-09-04
Theodore Roosevelt was amused by the clipping that Mrs. S. A. Tucker sent. Roosevelt thinks it is nice that there are so many Roosevelts and Derbys at the Plattsburgh training camp.
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1915-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with Archibald B. Roosevelt’s letter and believes the camp is doing “just exactly what it ought to do.” Roosevelt says that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are leaving on a trip today and he believes it will be good for her health. He asks Archibald to fill in and send the application for enrollment in the American Legion at his earliest convenience.
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1915-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt asks if his son Archie needs him to write to Brewster or do anything else to arrange for his trip. Roosevelt admires the artwork Ted Pitman has prepared for his next book. He is also glad that Archie will be going to the summer camp for military training over the summer, and he hopes that Quentin will go too.
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1915-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt hopes that Archibald Roosevelt has not lost the letter from Heller, which contained valuable information. Roosevelt also hopes that Archibald and Quentin Roosevelt will attend a summer military camp in the summer not just because it will be good for them, but because it will set a good example for the rest of the country.
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1915-03-20
President Roosevelt tells the United States War Department to inform Brigadier General John B. Kerr that Roosevelt is pleased with what he has done regarding the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas. He asks if the War Department can address an issue that Kerr raised in his report regarding the need for assistant instructors being non-commissioned officers.
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1908-11-27
President Roosevelt thanks General Grant for the letter and compliment paid to him by naming the new army instruction camp “Camp Roosevelt.”
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1906-07-07
President Roosevelt informs Representative Hull that if the House can only appropriate $700,000 to army instruction and training, it should be given to training regulars in service marches. Roosevelt also discusses changes to the rank of Lieutenant General. He wants the chief of staff to hold that rank only so long as he serves in that position, but Secretary of War William H. Taft feels differently.
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1906-02-16
President Roosevelt responds to two reports from Secretary of War Taft. First, he requests that the War Department be “absolutely certain” to provide an ample expeditionary force in the event of hostilities with China. Second, he approves of the plan for the army to march to summer camps next year and requests that Taft make every effort to secure the necessary appropriations from Congress.
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1906-01-11
Captain O’Ryan invites Theodore Roosevelt to inspect the farm owned by the 1st Battery Field Artillery of the New York National Guard. They conduct practical training there.
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1911-02-06
Frank Ross McCoy sends Theodore Roosevelt birthday greetings and also sends what he believes are the first holiday greetings to Roosevelt and his hunting party in Africa. McCoy has seen many of his and Roosevelt’s mutual friends and tells him about activities that they have been undertaking in the southwest, including marches and hunting trips. He updates Roosevelt on changes in military training and updated service regulations and also discusses the International Horse Show, in which Americans are competing against British officers.
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1909-10-27
General Wood updates President Roosevelt on his travels in England and discusses what else he wishes to see. He also draws Roosevelt’s attention to a report on the need for Fort McKinley to acquire more land so that it has adequate space for artillery practice and training exercises.
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1908-06-06
John St. Loe Strachey sends his condolences to President Roosevelt for the San Francisco earthquake. Strachey also discusses ways to prevent monopolies and a new company in the British army.
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1906-04-23
Leonard Wood discusses the progress of training the troops in the Philippines. Wood describes the problems with recent appointee Horatio C. Pollock, who owes large gambling debts and who kept records of Wood’s letters without his knowledge or consent.
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1906-02-25
Postcard showing a group of people outside the Army Club at Camp McKinley in the Philippines.
1908
Photograph showing four soldiers riding on horseback, military tents in the distance, Montauk Point, New York.
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1898
Soldier standing at camp cook area, Rough Riders military camp, Montauk Point, New York.
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1898
Rough Riders at military camp, Montauk Point, New York.
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1898
Soldier on horseback at Rough Riders military camp, Montauk Point, New York.
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1898
Rough Riders sitting or standing near tents at military camp, Montauk Point, New York.
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1898