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President Roosevelt thanks Bishop Johnston for the memorial service given by his son, Mercer Green Johnston, in honor of the late Henry Ware Lawton. Roosevelt will never forget the sermon Johnston gave to his own regiment in San Antonio.
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1905-02-16
President Roosevelt is delighted with the correspondence that John Campbell Greenway shared with him. He is glad Greenway is attending the inauguration, and says he will have to invite Greenway and some of the other former Rough Riders to have lunch with him..
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1905-01-31
President Roosevelt is greatly interested in Chief Justice Shepard’s pamphlet on the Alamo. His regiment was raised “almost under the shadow of the Alamo” and hopes to hold the upcoming regimental reunion there.
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1905-01-09
President Roosevelt agrees with William E. English, but offers the provisos that Civil War veterans should have “the right of the line,” and that he had already promised members of his own regiment and the New York Squadron they could be his personal escort. Roosevelt will discuss the matter with General John M. Wilson, chairman of his inaugural committee, to see if he can arrange the escort as English wishes.
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1904-11-30
President Roosevelt thanks James W. Hardison and the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp of Confederate Veterans for the invitation. Roosevelt will stop in Paris, Texas, during his trip to San Antonio, Texas, if possible. Roosevelt informs Hardison he had family who fought on both sides during the Civil War and mentions two recent appointments he has made of the descendants of Confederate veterans.
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1904-12-22
President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Moody that he believes it would be a wise idea to appoint Henry K. Love as a United States Marshal because he is a “first-class man.” In a handwritten addition, Roosevelt says, “He is a rough rider, alas—but then he is also a distant cousin of John Hay!”
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1904-12-17
President Roosevelt hopes that he can see Mrs. John Avery McIlhenny at Avery’s Island if he makes a Southern trip, and that John Avery McIlhenny will come with him to the reunion of the Rough Riders.
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1904-12-06
President Roosevelt informs W. Sloan Simpson of his plans to hunt for wolves and jackrabbits next spring and to hold a reunion of the Rough Riders Regiment in San Antonio, Texas, in March before the hunt. The president reminds Simpson he is getting older and needs “gentle horses.”
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt asks Governor Brodie if a reunion of the Rough Rider regiment could be arranged next spring in San Antonio, Texas, so long as there is not a special session of Congress. The president thanks Brodie and Ben Daniels for telegraphing their congratulations.
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt thanks Major Bridgman and Squadron A of the New York National Guard, and has made the request for them to be his personal escort. Roosevelt may also have members of the Rough Rider Regiment as part of the escort but says he will work out details later. Because Squadron A was his escort when he was made Governor of New York and Vice President, he would like them to be in the same position now.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt thanks former Rough Rider Arthur F. Cosby for sending him the interesting letters, and promises to write to former Rough Rider Colton Reed to thank him “for getting out the facts in regard to our service in Cuba.”
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1904-10-31
President Roosevelt thanks Colton Reed for the work he has done in sharing the facts about their service in Cuba during the Spanish-American war.
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1904-10-31
President Roosevelt enjoyed Lebowich’s article, and wishes he had been amongst the Harvard men in Roosevelt’s regiment. Roosevelt agrees with Lebowich that he attempts to treat Jews and Catholics as he does Protestants; Roosevelt believes that in the future there will inevitably be Jewish and Catholic presidents and, thus, hopes that he treats them as he would want to be treated by a Jewish or Catholic president, i.e., “without regards to the several creeds which they profess or the several lands from which their ancestors have sprung.” Roosevelt tries not to be patronizing or condescending, and appreciates that Lebowich noticed that.
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1904-10-15
President Roosevelt thanks his former comrade in the Rough Riders Nelson Eli Bartoo for his letter in the Evening Gazette.
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1904-10-04
President Roosevelt wishes Ross Anderson Hickok had been with him in the regiment and mentions that William Walter Heffelfinger was a delegate for him at the National Convention.
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1904-10-04
President Theodore Roosevelt seeks input on a letter to Captain William E. English. Roosevelt could not go to the Spanish War Veterans’ encampment. Roosevelt is glad to hear what Chairman James Putnam Goodrich of the Republican State Committee told him about Indiana and the election. In New York, they should win as well, even though there is debate over the governorship.
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1904-09-16
Theodore Roosevelt received E. G. B. Haymon’s letter and agrees that the Rough Riders were a great regiment.
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1904-09-12
President Roosevelt responds to allegations that diminished his role in the Battle of San Juan Hill. For clarification, Roosevelt offers Fleming a copy of The Rough Riders and cites accounts written by other officers on the scene.
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1904-08-18
President Roosevelt was sorry to hear of the death of their comrade, Mr. Durand. Roosevelt was unaware that Durand’s eldest son had been named after him.
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1904-02-29
President Roosevelt regrets he will be unable to attend the Rough Rider reunion for 1904. He may be able to attend next year if the reunion is held in San Antonio, Texas, earlier in the year.
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1904-03-03