United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st

President Roosevelt congratulates former Rough Rider Roscoe H. Channing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-05

President Roosevelt thanks John M. Taylor for the primer and the spoon. He calls Sequoyah a “national hero,” and expresses pride that so many men “of Indian blood” were in his regiment, particularly Cherokee.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-26

President Roosevelt tells Senator Scott that the neither the Tenth Cavalry, nor any other regiment, “ever rescued the Rough Riders from any predicament.” He explains that his regiment fought next to the First and Tenth regulars, and the three regiments fought well, but none of them “was ever helped out of a scrape by another, or ever helped another out of a scrape” outside of the implications of fighting side by side.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-24

President Roosevelt believes a bodyguard would be of little use and that, if alert and resolute, a man is better able to defend himself than a bodyguard. He was pleased by William H. H. Llewellyn’s news about the regiment and hopes to see him soon.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Theodore C. Thomas writes to Theodore Roosevelt about his desires to move to and work in Mexico, and asks if Roosevelt would write a letter of recommendation to Francisco I. Madero so that he may get a head start on finding employment. Thomas describes all his connections from when he was a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

William S. Youngman, a Harvard graduate who was approved for transfer to Theodore Roosevelt’s regiment but never served on the front, shares his admiration for Roosevelt. Youngman also encloses an article that connects Roosevelt to solicitations for the order of the Moose, which Youngman is sure is being done with Roosevelt’s knowledge and could injure Roosevelt’s reputation.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-10

Anthony J. Gavin shares his thanks that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will recover and not sustain serious injury from her accident.

Comments and Context

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had been thrown from her horse on September 30, 1911, causing her to hit her head and remain unconscious for several days.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

William H. H. Llewellyn attaches a receipt for a book he sent to Theodore Roosevelt. The book concerns Roosevelt’s regiment in the Spanish-American War, and the Spanish-American War as a whole. Llewellyn states Ralph Emerson Twitchell worked hard on the piece. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-22

Former Rough Rider David Victor McClure asks President Roosevelt to intercede for him and write a letter to the Executive Board of the Latonia Jockey Board. McClure has been suspended from steeplechase races in Latonia, Kentucky, for no reason in his opinion. He gives his word as a Rough Rider and as a man that he is innocent of wrongdoing.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-12

Secretary of Commerce Straus believes that President Roosevelt’s oration on the Rough Riders was one of his best. He writes that it is “full of wisdom for the ‘Banker and the Bricklayer,’ the warrior and wage earner.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-13

John M. Taylor sends President Roosevelt a copy of a letter which Captain Allyn Capron sent to Judge John Robert Thomas, from Cuba in 1898. Taylor describes his part in having helped to recruit two companies of Rough Riders from Indian Territory, and reminds Roosevelt that he came to San Antonio, where he was introduced to Roosevelt by Thomas.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-22

William Loeb notes that all officers have been paid. An accounting will be done and the amount due President Roosevelt will be paid him without his having to make application for it.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06

Benjamin F. Harper, auditor for the War Department, informs William Loeb that President Roosevelt is entitled to two months extra pay as Colonel of the Rough Riders. The sum due is $583.34.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-13

John Campbell Greenway notifies President Roosevelt that he would be proud to be part of the Rough Rider escort detail for the inauguration. Greenway responded to the invitation by Colonel Alexander O. Brodie stating Brodie can count on him for that glorious event.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-27

Governor Brodie informs President Roosevelt of the regimental guard appointments made by Brodie for Roosevelt’s upcoming inauguration parade in March 1905.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-26

Governor Brodie informs President Roosevelt about the progress being made in contacting Rough Riders and selecting thirty of them to ride as his personal guard on March 4 at a Rough Rider reunion in San Antonio. Brodie recommends that the Rough Riders selected for the guard represent all sections of the country. New outfits are being made for the occasion.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-20

President Roosevelt stitches a uniform around William H. Taft who holds a “big stick.” Caption: On His Way to Join the “Hamilton County Ring Killers Brigade.” Twenty-five Hundred Volunteers Wanted.

comments and context

Comments and Context

A small, rural newspaper evidently “borrowed” an image and premise from a major cartoonist in a major city in order to graft local references and apply a different context. In this case, from the White House scrapbook, the Hamilton County Hornet in Williams, Iowa (there was another publication in the country named The Wasp), transformed a cartoon from the New York World.

President Roosevelt walks quickly following a sign that reads “to the rough riders’ reunion!!!” while Admiral Lucien Young, William Loeb, “representatives of the press,” and “reception committee of prominent citizens” struggle to keep up. To Roosevelt’s left is the “Alamo” and four cowboys who fire their revolvers. An “official photographer” tries to capture a picture. Caption: He arrives in “San Antone.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04-06

President Roosevelt holds an “itinerary” and a gun as he walks toward the “happy hunting grounds.” The itinerary says, “Monday: leave Washington; Tuesday: speech at Louisville, stop at St. Louis; Wednesday: stop in Indian Territory, speech at Sherman, Texas, and at Dallas; Thursday: at Waco and Austin, arrive at Antonio; Friday: Rough Riders reunion at San Antonio; Saturday: speech at Ft. Worth, leave Ft. Worth for several weeks’ hunting in Texas and Colorado.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04-04

President Roosevelt holds an axe and a turkey with a sign about “office holders” as four Rough Riders look on.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-22