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Letter from Eugene F. Ware to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Eugene F. Ware to Theodore Roosevelt

Commissioner of Pensions Ware spent a week at the Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment. He reports that the pension attorneys and pensioners are “in just as good shape as human effort can get them,” noting that no principles had to be sacrificed to achieve this result. Many of the old soldiers favor President Roosevelt in the upcoming election. Ware encloses a clipping of General John Charles Black’s address to the Grand Army of the Republic.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-22

Creator(s)

Ware, Eugene F., 1841-1911

Remarks of the President at Morristown, Tennessee

Remarks of the President at Morristown, Tennessee

President Roosevelt addresses the crowd that has gathered at Morristown, Tennessee. He expresses gratitude that he has been able to visit East Tennessee as president, especially the Civil War battlegrounds of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Lookout Mountain. He says anyone who visits these sites and reflects on the post-war lives of the Civil War veterans should come away a better American citizen and reminds his audience that the greatest Union naval commander, Admiral David Farragut, came from Tennessee. Roosevelt concludes by noting that Americans’ great deeds reflect positively on other Americans just as a deed “of a shameful character makes all of us hang our heads a little.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919