War casualties

Mars, the Roman god of war, with bandages on his head, arm, and foot, sits in his tent with a map of “Manchuria” on the small table next to him; hanging on the wall behind him are his helmet and shield. “Peace” is standing at the entrance to the tent and is asking if she may come in to visit. Caption: Peace–May I come in?

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What history knows as the Russo-Japanese War had dragged through 1904. Joseph Keppler’s brilliant cartoon presented the case simply: the war had run its course; and, it could be argued, the Russian Empire was as beat up as the figure of Mars was in this drawing.

Theodore Roosevelt is glad that John Burroughs called his attention to a piece in The Outlook that he had not previously seen. Two of Roosevelt’s other three sons have been wounded in the fighting overseas. Roosevelt believes that there is “nothing finer in our history than the way our young men have eagerly and gladly gone to France to fight for a high ideal.” However, Roosevelt hates for his sons to face dreadful danger while he remains at home, and he is bitter that he was not allowed to join them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-08-14

Theodore Roosevelt sends his sympathies to Herbert Ward on the death of his oldest son and the capture of his second son.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-04-04

Theodore Roosevelt invites William Astor Chanler to serve with him, if he is permitted to join the war. Roosevelt writes that they share the same beliefs including the belief that “there are many worse ways of ending than in battle.” He goes on to quote a Civil War poem about death in war.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-12

President Roosevelt congratulates Representative Adamson on his gallant nephew, who was injured while serving in the military.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-31

Captain Pershing encloses data on the number of Japanese casualties during the Russo-Japanese War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-11

William McKinley sits on a white horse on a cliff, as the brilliant leader of a successful military campaign, with Mark A. Hanna standing next to him, holding a banner that states, “Three Cheers and a Tiger for Prosperity’s Advance Agent!!” In the valley below lie the casualties of the campaign, “Morton, Quay, Allison, Reed, Manley, [and] Cullom,” and in the background are John Sherman, Robert T. Lincoln, and Benjamin Harrison. “Manley,” Reed’s campaign manager, wears a Red Cross on his uniform.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-05-20

Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have spent two weeks with Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her family. Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and Richard Derby have both written that Archibald Roosevelt should have been sent home for treatment. Quentin Roosevelt’s last letters are arriving and his grave is now within the French lines.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-08-09

Rumors about Quentin Roosevelt’s death arrived on July 16 but were not confirmed until today. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is suffering and Flora Whitney is brokenhearted. Quentin “died as the heroes of old died.” Congress returned some Nobel Prize money to Roosevelt and he has decided to donate it to the Salvation Army. He agrees with Archie Roosevelt’s thoughts on the government’s failure to prepare for war and that many people, like Quentin, will pay with their blood. Ted Roosevelt was recently injured with a “bullet through his leg.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-07-21