Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to R. Heber Newton
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Reverend Newton for his letter. Roosevelt also briefly discusses military weapons.
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Creation Date
1914-12-17
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Military weapons
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Sowden Sims
President Roosevelt looked over Admiral Sims’s letter and the “accompanying admirable article.” He agrees it is discouraging to have previously resolved arguments resurrected, especially those concerning the relationship between rapidity of shots and accuracy.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-08-29
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Letter from Robert Shaw Oliver to Theodore Roosevelt
Acting Secretary of War Oliver responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry about military readiness. The department is preparing a report on new artillery developments and methods.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-12-02
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Letter from George Kennan to Theodore Roosevelt
Journalist George Kennan reports to President Roosevelt on the Japanese Third Army’s siege of Port Arthur, Manchuria. Kennan claims the Russians are violating the provisions of the Red Cross Geneva Convention. He has witnessed them firing on medical personnel. The Japanese soldiers are unable to recover their wounded and dead comrades. Kennan is very impressed by the Japanese artillery’s accuracy which he credits to the training the gunners receive. He thinks Congress should increase appropriations for training ammunition and stop referring to such costs as wasteful. Other countries have sent officers to observe the siege operations. He is disappointed that the United States has not done the same. General Nogi would like President Roosevelt to send copies of the Infantry and Cavalry Regulations to the headquarters of the Third Imperial Army. Kennan encloses maps showing the Russian and Japanese fortifications. Finally, having just learned of the election results, Kennan sends congratulations to President Roosevelt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-20
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Machine guns in the present war
Captain Mott describes the use of machine guns, field artillery, and bayonets on the battlefield. Mott cites an article from the Russian military newspaper Rousskii Invalid as his source.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-19
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Letter from William Sowden Sims to Theodore Roosevelt
Lieutenant-Commander Sims asks President Roosevelt to review Captain Percy Scott’s lecture on naval gunnery and marksmanship.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-18
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Letter from George Albert Converse to Theodore Roosevelt
George Albert Converse, rear admiral and Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, had not discussed armor in an earlier report as he was focused on armaments. He has completed a memorandum and is submitting it. It discusses armor distribution in the Navy’s fleet, comparing the New Hampshire with Russia’s Czarevitch and with Japanese designs.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-15
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Fred P. Barnett
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Fred P. Barnett that it is vital the United States make preparedness a priority. Other issues, such as who would supply arms and munitions, are of less importance.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-12-31
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Guy Murchie
President Roosevelt thinks the photographs that Guy Murchie sent are interesting. He has looked into “the Moro cannon” and will see if they can be distributed as Murchie recommends.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-09-11
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft
President Roosevelt gives Secretary of War Taft his thoughts on several weapons used in the military, saying especially that he believes “that ramrod bayonet about as poor an invention as I ever saw.” Roosevelt wishes officers could carry rifles, but if they must carry swords, Roosevelt believes “it ought to be a sword that can do damage.” Roosevelt also requests the opinions of Captain Peyton Conway March and officers in the Philippines about bayonets and swords.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-01-04
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Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt
Ambassador Reid updates President Roosevelt on his recent interactions with the Grocers’ Federation Associations of the United Kingdom. The group requested that Roosevelt send a dispatch clarifying that canned American meat sent to foreign markets has always been carefully inspected, as half a million dollars worth of American tinned meats has become “dead stock” due to the recent agitation. Reid recommended they contact Secretary of Commerce and Labor Victor Howard Metcalf or Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson instead. Reid also mentions a letter he received from Sir Edward Grey expressing support for the proposal of a reduction of armaments in Russia.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-07-31
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Letter from Carl Schurz to Theodore Roosevelt
Carl Schurz writes to President Roosevelt to discus gradual rearmament. Schurz indicates that Roosevelt’s interview with Baron Rosen was crucial and congratulates him on facilitating the peace between Russia and Japan.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-09-23
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Marshall Stimson
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Marshall Stimson’s thoughts on military training. Roosevelt has also been careful to never do President Wilson an injustice when he speaks of him, but believes the criticism must be made.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916-05-10
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Futility
A winged female figure labeled “Peace” sits on one side of a mountain pass, and Mars, the Roman god of war, sits on the opposite side. A man wearing a crown and robe labeled “Czar” is walking down the path, carrying a large candle snuffer labeled “Peace Congress” that he hopes to use to extinguish a volcano labeled “War” that is erupting in the distance. He must pass through areas that are heavily armed with munitions and bearing the countenances of several foreign rulers.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1899-06-21
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A peace dream of Eastertime
A female figure labeled “Europe” sleeps among boxes of “Munitions of War [and] Ammunition,” large shells, and a barrel of “Powder” with a candle labeled “Ambition” as a burning fuse. She is dreaming about “The Czar’s Proposal for a Universal Peace Congress.” Her dream shows an angel holding up a banner labeled “Millennium” around which are dancing the symbolic representations of several countries. Among them are a fox, a turkey wearing a fez, a double-headed eagle labeled “Austria,” a cock labeled “France,” an eagle labeled “Germany,” the British Lion, the Russian Bear labeled “Russia,” a fox labeled “Italy,” a cat labeled “Spain,” and a dragon labeled “China.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1899-04-05
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His Easter hat
Black and white cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt putting on a hat piled with armaments.
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1907-03-20
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Every hour is lunch hour at the Dreadnought Club
The Roman god Mars, eating a battleship, is seated a table with Uncle Sam and Marianne (symbol of France) and the rulers of European and Asian countries at the “Dreadnought Club,” each awaiting their meals of munitions and armaments being brought to the table by a heavily burdened waitress labeled “Peace.” Caption: Peace — “Waiting on a crowd like this is no job for a woman.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1911-05-31