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Secretary of the Navy Moody orders Rear Admiral Coghlan to position guns on Tierra Bomba Island and asks what supplies will be needed to implement the order.
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1904-01-04
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt asks his nephew, President Roosevelt, to give the case involving Paymaster Harry Earl Biscoe and Admiral Robley D. Evans special consideration. He mentions his plans to visit Washington, D.C., and describes his lively Christmas with his family.
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1904-01-04
Commander Turner reports to Admiral Coghlan on three scouting parties and their missions to San Juan, Nombre de Dios, and San Isabel, and the hiring of a sloop crew to meet the scouting party in San Isabel.
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1904-01-04
Rear Admiral Coghlan reports that the Isthmus has been quiet this week. He gives updates on the Castine, Bancroft, Mayflower, Olympia, Prairie, and Nashville. The Atlanta is disabled and in port getting repairs.
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1904-01-05
Report concerning U.S. naval operations in Panama.
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1904-01-05
Commander Hubbard reports on military operations in Panama, particularly which streams and rivers are navigable.
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1904-01-05
Secretary of the Navy Moody encloses correspondences concerning military operations in Panama to President Roosevelt. Included are reports, dispatches, letters, a map, and orders. The majority are to and from American military personnel, but seven are Colombian military communications.
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1904-01-06
The recommendation that every armored vessel currently under construction or built in the future be outfitted with at least one submerged torpedo tube is under review. The Board of Construction is investigating the addition of torpedo tubes to the ships currently being built. The Naval Gun Factory has been directed to manufacture twenty tubes. A report will soon be available outlining what can be done, the cost, and a timeline for completion.
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1904-01-06
Admiral Wadhams reports hydrographic information about Chiriqui Lagoon and the inaccuracies of the charts on this region. Wadhams also reports on the location of villages, their inhabitants, and which plantations are owned by the United Fruit Company.
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1904-01-06
Secretary of the Navy Moody encloses copies of nine items, a mixture of reports, letters, and dispatches, from Rear Admiral Henry Glass and Read Admiral Joseph Bullock Coghlan, about military operations in Panama.
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1903-12-31
Rear Admiral Coghlan requests further instruction regarding landing U.S. Marines from the USS Dixie.
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1903-12-31
Secretary of the Navy Moody instructs Rear Admiral Coghlan to investigate navigation opportunities in and around Panama.
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1903-12-31
Rear Admiral Glass reports that all is quiet on the Panama Isthmus.
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1904-01-02
Secretary of the Navy Moody requests an intelligence report on military plans for possible hostilities in Panama.
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1904-01-02
Rear Admiral Coghlan reports that the charge d’affaires of France in Baranquilla, Colombia, has informed him that 3,000 men have been sent and can rendezvous at Atrato River, Colombia.
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1904-01-02
Rear Admiral Coghlan clarifies that the USS Atlanta did not land armed forces on Colombian territory. The only time American officers with swords went ashore was at the invitation of Colombian generals.
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1903-12-25
USS Olympia has been telegraphed to proceed alone to Cartagena, Colombia, and will depart December 26, 1903.
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1903-12-25
Secretary of the Navy Moody encloses additional correspondences concerning military operations in Panama to President Roosevelt.
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1903-12-26
The text sent from Colon, Panama, reads “no news.”
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1903-12-27
Rear Admiral Coghlan describes the positive reception he received from Governor Insignares and other locals when he brought the USS Olympia to Cartagena, Colombia. Coghlan also notes that he picked up United States Minister Arthur M. Beaupre and his wife. He regrets that he was unable to speak with Vice Consul Thomas C. Stevenson since Stevenson was violently ill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28