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George Edward Graham appreciates being consulted on the Schley case. He assures President Roosevelt that under no circumstances will he allow his personal relationship with Admiral Schley to influence his advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-20
Felix Agnus asks President Roosevelt not to render his decision in the Schley case before Admiral Schley’s counsel has submitted their appeal. The appeal will contain vital facts that have not yet been presented and will be ready early the next week.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-15
Secretary of the Navy Long encloses a letter from Captain Charles D. Sigsbee regarding the Santiago campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-15
Captain Sigsbee disagrees with testimony given by Mr. Graham during the Schley court of inquiry. He has read that Graham has met with President Roosevelt and Captain Sigsbee offers his version of events to be laid before the President if deemed appropriate. The disagreement is over when dispatches were sent and Admiral Schley’s actions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-15
Paul Dana sends an enclosure from Charles Stewart Davison regarding the Schley case. Davison has closely studied the case and Dana suggests that Senator Lodge provide another angle to bring the information to President Roosevelt’s attention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-18
Secretary of the Navy Long encloses a letter he wrote to President McKinley on July 3, 1899, which refers to the “responsibility for waiving the delinquencies prior to the Santiago battle.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-14
James Bryce requests a message from President Roosevelt to be delivered at the annual dinner of the Alpine Club in December. Bryce is currently in Cuba where he toured the Santiago battlefield and met with General Wood.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Admiral Schley and his advisers should accept the decision of the court of inquiry. President Roosevelt has made his opinion known in the past and the country is tired of the dispute.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
The Schley-Sampson controversy has been settled by the court of inquiry and the matter should now be dropped.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
Benjamin F. Tracy defends Admiral Dewey and the judgment of the court of inquiry which was examining Admiral Schley’s conduct at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-27
Secretary of the Navy Long defends the Navy Department’s treatment of Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-19
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-29