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Theodore Roosevelt tells T. F. Fremantle that he cannot accept his offer because he is not allowed to take troops abroad.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-01
President Roosevelt thanks Alexander Lambert for his letter, which contained the information Roosevelt was about to ask for. Roosevelt has asked Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park S. B. M. Young to remove the fountain. Roosevelt plans to give Young as much authority over the park as he can, replacing the soldiers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-15
President Roosevelt thanks Charles Guilleux for sending him a book about being a soldier, specifically from the perspective of an enlisted man. Since Roosevelt himself has been a soldier, he is particularly interested in the book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-12
President Roosevelt will show German Ambassador Sternburg’s letter to Secretary of State Elihu Root. He does not think that the settlement in Mexico and Hawaii of former Japanese soldiers is part of some plan by the government of Japan but rather believes it is due to their disinclination to return to a boring peacetime life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-24
William N. Freeman thanks Frank Harper for his letter. He discusses a possible daily school exercise of a flag honor guard. He recalls a movement to assign a generic name to American soldiers, as British soldiers are called “Tommy Atkins”. He suggests “Johnny Trump”, and hopes that Roosevelt can endorse the idea. He would like to meet Roosevelt and give him a handshake.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
William D. Tucker thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the copy of The Rough Riders and photograph on behalf of the Spanish War Veterans organization. They appreciate the depiction of Roosevelt as a soldier and plan to display the photo at the National Encampment in Atlantic City, New Jersey 1912, and invite Roosevelt to join them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt that fifty soldiers at Fort Riley tried to rescue a comrade from jail and were fired on by the sheriff. It reminds Lodge of the Brownsville case, and he encourages Roosevelt to treat the Fort Riley case with care so that no one can suggest that more severity was shown to African American troops than to white troops. Lodge also notes his interest in the riots occurring in Vancouver, British Columbia against the Japanese.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-10
President Roosevelt addresses the soldiers at Camp Elliott in Panama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-02
The first photograph depicts President Roosevelt running a steam shovel while the second photograph shows him addressing troops at Camp Elliot.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-26
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt in a western setting. The man on Roosevelt’s immediate left appears to be Albert B. Fall, Senator from New Mexico (1913-1921). Four unidentified men, two wearing Western hats, may be Rough Riders. A woman is barely visible directly behind Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1910-1920
On August 23, 1921, as part of its French tour, the American Legion delegation attended the ceremonies of laying the cornerstone for the Roosevelt Bridge, which was built to replace the bridge the Germans destroyed in 1918 over the Marne River in Château-Thierry, France. The bridge was named after Theodore Roosevelt and his son Quentin who was killed in action in France. Camera pans the town, the many French and American dignitaries and soldiers attending the event, and the Marne River; final sequence is long shots of the formal dedication ceremony. Identified on the extreme left of group are: Franklin D’Olier, former National Commander, and Major John G. Emery, current National Commander of the American Legion.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1921-08
Theodore Roosevelt writes about his travels in the Midwest, starting to work for the Kansas City Star, and his visits to various military bases. He comments about the lack of rifles and uniforms for the soldiers.
1917-09-28
A picture of the painting The Vidette by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier which accompanied an article discussing the show and sale of paintings owned by Theron R. Butler, great-grandfather of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01
A large crowd watches as troops leave for Cuba to fight in the Spanish-American War.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to say he wrote General Peyton March to get orders for Kermit. He reports that Quentin Roosevelt shot down a German plane and Eleanor wants Belle to join her in Paris. He recounts a visit from his friends Chapman and Cherrie and a story about Cherrie’s sons enlisting. Roosevelt says he and Mother ride horses and row and he was a pallbearer at former New York Mayor John Mitchell’s funeral.
1918-07-13
Article includes a letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to General Wilmon Whilldin Blackmar expressing regret that he is not able to attend the Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment. He commends those who served in the armed forces, especially Union soldiers in the Civil War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-17
A list of officers and enlisted men who distinguished themselves in action in the Department of Mindanao.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt describes conditions on-board ship as hot and crowded. He says they let the men swim that day, but the activity was cut short by one man’s close encounter with a shark.
1898-06-10
Field Marshal Oyama Iwao, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces, stands at the top of a hill, holding binoculars, while troops move artillery up the hill behind him. A battle rages in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-07-19
Photograph of initials carved into a rock by a cavalry soldier under the command of Colonel George Armstrong Custer located several miles south of Medora, North Dakota in the Little Missouri National Grasslands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-13