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This article corrects a mistake made in a previous article of this title, regarding Captain William E. English’s report of how and where President Roosevelt became wounded during the Spanish American War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-13
President Roosevelt addresses the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition by first remarking upon the healing and reunification that has taken place since the Civil War and praising South Carolina. He approves of the exhibition’s effort to involve the West Indies, and feels that they will play a greater role in American policy going forward. The exhibition was made possible by the ongoing industrial development in the nation which Roosevelt praises, even as he also recognizes that it can produce social problems that the nation needs to work together to confront. His administration can help in this goal though the fair and honest administration of laws.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04
In connection with the pending bill to provide Annie Gray Hawkins a pension, Roosevelt discusses General Hamilton Hawkins’ service during the Santiago campaign of the Spanish-American War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-11
President Roosevelt agrees with Rachel Sherman Thorndike that “in dealing with the South one must often exercise patience and forbearance to a degree which I should not dream of extending to the North.” If some sons of former Confederate generals made a trip through Indiana and Ohio along the path of a raid that took place during the Civil War, Roosevelt believes no one would pay any attention to them, but the trip of Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, a son of William Tecumseh Sherman, through Georgia is causing an uproar. Roosevelt believes General William Penn Duvall let the information get out in the wrong shape, and that the trouble could have been avoided.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-03
President Roosevelt is unable to attend the memorial celebration for Joseph Wheeler in Atlanta.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-02
President Roosevelt thanks W. C. Dodson for writing such a kind letter to William Loeb. He enjoyed meeting comrades of General Joseph Wheeler at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-10
President Roosevelt extends Joseph Wheeler his sympathy upon the death of his father. He will attend the burial at Arlington and asks Wheeler to let him know where he can send a wreath.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-26
President Roosevelt responds to allegations that diminished his role in the Battle of San Juan Hill. For clarification, Roosevelt offers Fleming a copy of The Rough Riders and cites accounts written by other officers on the scene.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-18
In chapter three of his book, The Truth about Chickamaugua, Archibald Gracie discusses Union General George H. Thomas’s role in the battle
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08
Daniel Edgar Sickles informs Theodore Roosevelt that he subscribed to the Joe Wheeler bust with a $50 subscription and General Wilson will hand Roosevelt a subscription list soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-11
Daniel Edgar Sickels is helping sculptor William Rudolph O’Donovan dispose of a bust of General Joseph Wheeler. Having served with Wheeler, Sickels hopes Theodore Roosevelt will use his influence to put the bust in the Army and Navy Club or a suitable institution. Sickels will arrange a meeting with other officers to discuss the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-04
Charles Morgan regrets that he and his wife cannot accept the invitation to Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. His son Charles C. Morgan also cannot attend as he will be rowing for Harvard. Morgan wishes to call to Roosevelt’s attention the upcoming house bill related to veterans that served in the Civil War, War with Spain, and in the Philippines. Morgan hopes Roosevelt will run again for president and feels “the country is safe in your hands.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-21
Private Dodson writes to William Loeb to clarify events that have taken place in the Wheeler’s Confederate Calvary camp involving the honorary nomination and then dismissal of President Roosevelt. Dodson encloses clippings from the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune which he claims were falsely written and includes the by-laws of his organization to best explain the situation. Loeb is requested to explain the situation to Roosevelt at his convenience.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-08
This exhaustively illustrated account of the Spanish-American war seeks to present the official history of the war according to the United States War Records Office. It encompasses the events leading up to the war, the war itself, as well as its resolution and aftermath. While it mentions the various engagements taking place during the war, most of the focus is on Cuba and the action of the United States Navy and Army in fighting Spanish forces there in support of Cuban rebels. It additionally includes general information on the theaters of war, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
1900
Michele Bryant chronicles the ultimately doomed efforts of Katherine Augusta Wescott Tingley to transform the San Juan and Kettle Hill battlefields in Cuba into the Latin American headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Bryant notes that Tingley managed to buy the battlefield land and to erect two memorials, one an archway and the other a pillar, to Americans and Cubans who had died in the Spanish-American War. Bryant chronicles Tingley’s involvement with the Theosophical Society and her related charitable works, including establishing three schools in Cuba in the wake of the war, and she relates that Tingley’s planned development of the San Juan Heights property never was realized.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013
Quintard Taylor provides a history of the African American servicemen, the Buffalo Soldiers, who served in the American West after the Civil War, and he examines the relationship between Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and two regiments of the Buffalo Soldiers, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, that served alongside the Rough Riders in Cuba. Taylor highlights the heroics of individual Buffalo Soldiers, including recipients of the Medal of Honor, and he quotes extensively from Roosevelt’s writings to give Roosevelt’s views on these servicemen. Taylor examines a dispute that arose after the war when Roosevelt questioned the actions of some of the Tenth Cavalry men at the Battle of San Juan Heights.
A photograph of Taylor, five photographs of various Buffalo Soldiers, and an illustration of Roosevelt with Booker T. Washington appear in the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2009-10-24
J. David Valaik claims that Theodore Roosevelt and others who were members of volunteer units in wartime were often the subject of criticism by professional or regular soldiers. Valaik quotes from a letter written by Captain Matthew F. Steele, a regular Army officer who served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, to show that the opposite could be true. Steele praised Roosevelt for his actions and leadership on July 1, 1898 and went so far as to wish that Roosevelt might one day be president.
A detail from the famous photograph of Roosevelt with the Rough Riders atop San Juan Hill accompanies the text. A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the members of its executive committee is found on the second page of the article.
Photograph showing (front row, right to left): Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood and former Civil War Confederate General, Joseph Wheeler. (Back row, right to left): Chaplain Henry A. Brown, Major Alexander Oswald Brodie and Major George Dunn.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
Four letters written by Theodore Roosevelt to President William McKinley from June to October 1898 about the war in Cuba. Two of the letters deal with the military campaign; one concerns the threat posed to U.S. troops by malaria; and in the last Roosevelt makes the case that he should be awarded the Medal of Honor.
A photograph of Roosevelt in his military uniform accompanies the letters.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1981
Senator H. A. Du Pont, a member of the Committee on Pensions, submits a report to the Senate on General Hamilton S. Hawkins’s service during the Battle of San Juan Hill. He includes a letter from Theodore Roosevelt that supports his statements. Du Pont proposes that because of Hawkins’s gallantry and faithful service, his widow, Annie Gray Hawkins, receives an increased pension to support her and her invalid daughter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23