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James McCormick Dalzell writes to President Roosevelt with a complaint against the Pension Office Commissioners regarding the pensions of Civil War veterans. Dalzell is angry and demands that the person responsible for wronging the veterans be fired.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-01
William H. H. Llewellyn reports on the unfortunate recent activities of former Rough Riders. James D. Ritchie of Troop G is in jail for murder in Colorado and Gerald A. Webb of Troop D killed two men in Arizona. Public sympathy has been growing for Frank Brito, currently incarcerated in New Mexico for killing his sister-in-law, since Brito’s wife ran off with Mr. Coyne of Troop H.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-20
William H. H. Llewellyn reports on the unfortunate recent activities of former Rough Riders. James D. Ritchie of Troop G is in jail for murder in Colorado and Gerald A. Webb of Troop D killed two men in Arizona. Public sympathy has been growing for Frank Brito, currently incarcerated in New Mexico for killing his sister-in-law, since Brito’s wife ran off with Mr. Coyne of Troop H.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-20
Benjamin F. Montgomery forwards messages regarding President Roosevelt’s western trip; including the message for Grand Duke Boris, arrangements for the Naval Parade, the Lincoln monument, and a request from Tams Bixby.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-21
Eliakim Torrance, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, encloses a report regarding the administration of the Pension Bureau. With an estimated 225,000 surviving Union soldiers missing from the pension rolls, the report reflects poorly on the Pension Bureau and Commissioner Henry Clay Evans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-22
Francis J. Hendricks encourages Vice President Roosevelt to accept a speaking invitation at a reunion of veterans in Onondaga County, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-03
Major General Sickles urges United States military veterans to set aside partisan differences to oppose the election of the Democratic Party’s candidate for the 1896 presidential election, William Jennings Bryan. Sickles primarily denounces Bryan on the issue of replacing the gold standard with a looser silver standard, which will, according to Sickles, allow debtors to pay off creditors and government bonds with less valuable currency, defrauding many veterans and army widows of the value of their pensions. Sickles considers this an unconstitutional attack on the public credit, a move towards Populist mob-rule. Sickles also accuses Bryan of encouraging the type of sectionalism that sparked the American Civil War. Although Sickles identifies as a Democrat himself, he denounces the platform and candidate, Bryan, approved at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and voices support for the Republican Candidate, William McKinley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1896-07
Chester L. Brooks writes to William C. Schnepple regarding informational booklets on Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, and Brooks inquires about Schnepple’s Rough Rider experience.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1951-09-29
Chester L. Brooks thanks Jesse D. Langdon for his invaluable letter detailing his Rough Rider experience as well as North Dakota history. Brooks also asks more questions.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1952-01-21
Chester L. Brooks requests information about Rough Rider veterans and their addresses.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1952-07-08
Eugene W. Waterbury writes to Chester L. Brooks regarding an enclosed newspaper article and mentions Jesse Langdon.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-06-01