United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-01-20

Creator(s)

Bailie, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1871-1937

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Frank S. Roberts has been appointed district judge of the twenty-second judicial district of Texas. Roberts is a native Texan who joined Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and then attended law school in Indiana. He returned to Texas to practice law and was quickly elected country attorney. Roberts has impressively risen from janitor to lawyer to district judge in seven years.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-04

Luther F. Eggers tells Theodore Roosevelt he has been a lifelong Republican, fought in the Civil War, and lived among the Rough Riders in Arizona before leaving to practice law in California. Eggers judges that the all Western states will support Roosevelt, unlike William H. Taft, and urges Roosevelt to accept the nomination.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-17

Inez Meta Taylor Hammer asks Theodore Roosevelt to again help her husband, John S. Hammer, secure a job because he had to leave the U. S. Marshal position due to her health. John Hammer does not know she is writing to Roosevelt, but he has been friendly to them before and she hopes he will help them now.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-15

D. A. Robinson informs Theodore Roosevelt of the Mounted Service School’s intention of creating a yearbook to showcase the aims and purpose of the school as well as provoke discussion around horsemanship in the army. The staff hope to publish articles written by instructors and believe a contribution by Roosevelt would be appropriate since Roosevelt greatly advanced horsemanship in the army during his presidency. Robinson assures Roosevelt any statement would be much appreciated.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Robert Bridges writes to President Roosevelt regarding English and German reviews of Roosevelt’s book. Bridges also mentions a forthcoming German translation of The Rough Riders.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-30

Theodore Roosevelt writes to the men who have volunteered for service in the firing lines during World War I to discuss his disappointment at being unable to join them, after President Wilson said Roosevelt could not reform the Rough Riders. Each man who was to be involved in the regiment can now join the military another way or serve his country in civil life. The funds that have been used for the regiment will be withdrawn and applied to another purpose. All four divisions would have sailed by September 1. Roosevelt challenges Wilson’s belief that the regiment would have only had a political impact and not contributed to the success of the war.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-05-20

The muster-in roll appointing Theodore Roosevelt as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Cavalry, 1st Regiment, Volunteers, commanded by Col. Leonard Wood. The form is signed by Roosevelt.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1898-05-06

Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt writes that, while honored to be considered for Governor of New York, he would not leave his regiment while the war is still on.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1898-07-27

American diplomat James Jeffrey Roche pays homage to President Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in a short poem.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-12

The Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt directs Helen McAfee to Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” volume to locate photographs of interest.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-06-01

President Roosevelt is glad to hear from Rough Rider Clifton F. Hodge and agrees with him, but unfortunately the national government can not help. Roosevelt is dealing with the same issue regarding the protection of elk. He has sent Hodge’s letter to Clinton Hart Merriam, the head of the Bureau of Biological Survey.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-29

President Roosevelt informs Commissioner of Pensions Warner that George P. Hamner was incapacitated by malaria before mustering out of Camp Wikoff after the campaign in Cuba.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-08

President Roosevelt congratulates Edward J. Bourke on being made acting Captain of the 164th Precinct of the New York Police Department. Roosevelt sends his regards to Deputy Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bugher.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-08

President Roosevelt appeals to Charles E. Magoon, Provisional Governor of Cuba, on behalf of Granville Fortescue and encloses a letter from him. He asks Magoon if Major Herbert J. Slocum might be convinced to give Fortescue a trial on his merits. Fortescue served alongside Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War, and also served with distinction in the Philippines. The President believes he is a good man who has learned from his mistakes and will not repeat them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-20

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-29

President Roosevelt is glad former Rough Rider Frederick W. Hawes has been transferred to the U.S. Customs Service. He praises Hawes for his previous work but strongly advises him to stop drinking.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-10

President Roosevelt introduces Cardinal James Gibbons to Civil Service Commissioner John Avery McIlhenny.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-10

President Roosevelt sends Edward McKay a photograph of him in the Rough Riders, and says he will always think of him as “one of Uncle Sam’s little boys,” and remembers him playing with Roosevelt’s son, Quentin. Roosevelt tells McKay about all the sports and activities his sons Quentin and Archie are involved in, and describes a camping trip where two bold young foxes visited the party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

Ormsby McHarg’s report confirms to President Roosevelt that Acting Territorial Governor of New Mexico James W. Raynolds must be removed from his post. Roosevelt believes that Henry P. Bardshar, who was a Rough Rider with him in Cuba, is an honest man. Roosevelt will write to George Curry about putting Bardshar in Raynolds’s place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-25