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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
A troop of senators, as Confederate soldiers being led by an officer on horseback labeled “Trusts,” march down a street past the house with “Barbara Fritchie” labeled “Dingley Tariff” leaning out the window, waving a flag labeled “High Protection.” Caption: “Who touches a hair on yon swelled head / Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-02-22
Black and white illustration of a Red Cross Nurse holding a victory statue and a dead soldier lying on a tomb commemorating Quentin Roosevelt and others.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918
A poem regarding “doing what you ought,” etc.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918
A poem regarding deceased soldier sons.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918
George F. Hoar, Carl Schurz, David B. Hill, and former Massachusetts Governor George S. Boutwell place their “Anti-Expansion Speech” at the feet of a huge American soldier holding a rifle and the American flag, while opposite them Filipinos place guns and swords at the soldier’s feet. Caption: The American Filipinos and the Native Filipinos will have to submit.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-06-04
A Union soldier from the year 1861 sits on the ground, exhausted from carrying a rifle, his bedroll, and the weight of so much additional equipment. Standing next to him is a soldier from the year 1902 holding a rifle and carrying only what he needs in battle. Caption: Old soldier–So that’s your new uniform. Well, I hope you’ll make as good a record in it as I did in mine.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-07-30
Secretary of War Elihu Root holds up a lantern to illuminate a scene in an “Anti-Canteen Saloon” where soldiers have gone to drink and socialize in the absence of a canteen on the army base. It is over-run with drunkenness and violence. Caption: What the W.C.T.U. has effected by abolishing the army canteen.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-05-29
A rank of men walking in the Inaugural Parade
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-03-24
Puck, the eponymous mascot of the magazine, looks at both sides of an issue. On the left, “The result of abolishing the canteen” shows soldiers drunk on whiskey, in a stupor, and engaged in a barroom brawl. On the right, “The canteen as it is” shows soldiers sitting around a table, eating and drinking beer. There was a public debate about the morality and practicality of government-managed drinking establishments on military bases.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-06-20
Uncle Sam stands at center, gesturing to the left toward American soldiers boarding ships to return to America after defeating the Spanish in the Philippines, and gesturing to the right toward a group of matronly women, one labeled “Daughters of the Revolution,” who have just arrived to educate the peoples of the Philippines. Caption: Uncle Sam–You have seen what my sons can do in war – now see what my daughters can do in peace.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-01-31
John Bull, the symbol of Great Britain, shovels British soldiers into the “British Empire Shute.” They end on the shoulders of “Oom” Paul Kruger who sits on a rock with a rifle across his lap, on soil labeled “Dutch Republic.” Overwhelmed by the soldiers, he has dropped his copy of the Bible that he was reading.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-03-21
Private Hubbard Pryor after his enlistment into the 44th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1863
Members of the United States Colored Troops at Port Hudson, Louisiana. The men stand in uniform clutching their rifles.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1863
Civil War soldiers sit on the rocks of Mason’s Island, later called Theodore Roosevelt Island, watching a Georgetown ferry transport wagons and horses across the Potomac River. One man is fishing. The Alexandria Aqueduct Bridge is visible in the background in its second incarnation as a canal and roadway.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1864
Soldiers in the 1st U.S. Colored Infantry train during the Civil War.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1863
Drawing of the 20th United States Colored Troops receiving their colors on Union Square during the Civil War.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1861-03-05
Portrait of five men standing in front of tent; one man holds a flag.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-07-08
Civil war soldiers sit on the rocks of Mason’s Island, later called Theodore Roosevelt Island, watching a Georgetown ferry transport wagons and horses across the Potomac River. One man is fishing. The Alexandria Aqueduct Bridge is visible in the background in its second incarnation as a canal and roadway.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1864
Theodore Roosevelt is touched by G. M. De Rochambeau’s letter and fondly remembers De Rochambeau’s elder brother. Roosevelt states that the Government will not allow him to send troops to France, but hopes his four boys and son-in-law will be going to France once they finish training in the army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-01