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Report concerning U.S. naval operations in Panama. “WYOMING arrived from Darien Harbor. Perfect quiet Yavisa country yesterday.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28
William H. Moody encloses correspondence concerning U.S. naval operations in Panama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28
Admiral Glass encloses copies of his daily telegrams and Admiral Joseph Bullock Coghlan’s reports as a record of events since his last report of December 21. All but twenty-five men were withdrawn from Yavisa and Real, Panama. Affairs in Panama remain quiet and orderly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28
Admiral Glass reports, “All quiet on the Isthmus. See Coghlan’s despatch.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-29
Rear Admiral Coghlan reports on the status and movements of the American ships Olympia, Bancroft, Nashville, Atlanta, Prairie, and Castine. He notes that the ships will have to be coaled by African Americans or Colombians when at the wharf as his own people are “apt to get fevers and rheumatism from getting wet and working in the sun.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-29
Commander Hubbard, of the USS Nashville, shares his opinion concerning what the outcome would have been if Colombian troops had entered Panama the night of the Panamanian revolution.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-29
Unknown shorthand note. The State Department and Navy Department have been informed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-24
Secretary of the Navy Moody encloses correspondences concerning military operations in Panama to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-29
Rear Admiral Coghlan reports to Secretary of the Navy Moody on the location and strength of the Colombian military. Coghlan also reports on railroads, bridges, and the weaponry of the Colombian forces.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-30
Admiral Taylor reports on military readiness at various ports in the event of hostilities with Colombia and the need to capture Cartagena. He asks if Admiral Coghlan has any further information and whether Coghlan can capture and hold Cartagena given the reports.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-22
The USS Mayflower encountered the Colombian cruiser General Pinzon carrying 300 men and weapons en route to base Titumati.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-22
Rear Admiral Coghlan reports the movements of Colombian troops and their ships Cartagena and Pinzon. He also gives the status of the American ships Atlanta, Mayflower, Prairie, Nashville, Castine, Olympia, and Bancroft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-22
Rear Admiral Coghlan proposes to take the American ships Olympia, Mayflower, Atlanta, and Castine from Colon, Panama, to Cartagena, Colombia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-23
Joseph Wingate Folk thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter. Folk agrees with the President concerning his remarks about the Supreme Court. Folk congratulates him on the outcome of the Baltimore cases.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-23
Secretary of the Navy Moody encloses copies of reports concerning military operations in Panama to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-23
Secretary of the Navy Moody forwards copies of correspondences concerning military operations in Panama to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-24
In keeping with the President’s request, the U.S. Navy’s librarian, Charles West Stewart, has been tasked with collecting all communications since 1846 concerning U.S. military operations in Panama for the purpose of preventing free transit under the Bidlack Treaty of 1846.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-24
Rear Admiral Glass orders the landings at Yariza and El Real de Santa Maria to be secured against attacks from Colombian forces. Panamanian forces should be supported and the communications should be kept open with the assistance of Chuciuto, a Panamanian steamer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-18
Rear Admiral Glass relays a series of orders to Commander Cottman. He is to remove the Marines from Yavisa and the remaining sailors are to obtain and transmit information only. All sailors are to be withdrawn from Real de Santa Maria. The USS Wyoming is to go to Darien Harbor and remain there. Confidential order #524 of the 18th is revoked.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-21
Admiral Coghlan reports on the disposition of ships under his command.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-30