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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Brooks Adams

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Brooks Adams

President Roosevelt tells Brooks Adams that he doubts the community agreed with his position regarding the 25th infantry, who are the African American soldiers involved in the recent episode at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas. Roosevelt also believes that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker has been representing Wall Street in attacking the president related to the Brownsville affair.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Dent Grant

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Dent Grant

President Roosevelt tells Major General Grant that he will arrange to see the general’s daughter Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene and her husband Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Cantacuzene soon. Roosevelt also mentions that “a general order” of Grant’s father, President Ulysses S. Grant, has a direct bearing on the ongoing Brownsville investigation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-08

Memorandum for the Secretary of War relative to the alleged summary disbandment, by General Robert E. Lee, Confederate States Army, of a battalion of infantry, in October, 1864.

Memorandum for the Secretary of War relative to the alleged summary disbandment, by General Robert E. Lee, Confederate States Army, of a battalion of infantry, in October, 1864.

A memorandum from the War Department discusses the historical accuracy of an alleged order from the Civil War used by President Roosevelt as an exhibit accompanying a message to the Senate concerning the discharge of soldiers in Brownsville. The alleged order is from Robert E. Lee disbanding the 22nd Virginia Battalion in 1864 for poor conduct. A search of the Confederate archives does not substantiate this order, instead showing that a request to redistribute members of the Battalion was never followed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ray Stannard Baker

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ray Stannard Baker

President Roosevelt was pleased with Baker’s article on the Atlanta riots. He has been depressed over the Brownsville riots–not so much the attitude of the troops involved, but the response of the African American citizens in protecting the perpetrators. Had the troops and citizens involved been white, he does not believe they would have responded the same way. Roosevelt believes Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker has declared his support of the accused troops not because he questions their guilt, but either because he disagrees with Roosevelt on the control of corporations or because he wishes to secure the African American vote.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-30

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caspar Whitney

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caspar Whitney

President Roosevelt tells Caspar Whitney that he will read all of the articles Whitney has sent him, and that he “won’t be shaken” from his current views on the “Twenty-fifth infantry”–the African American soldiers blamed for the recent riot at Brownsville, Texas–unless new facts come to his attention. Roosevelt also appreciates Whitney’s thoughts on journalist Poultney Bigelow

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-05