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Lowell Parker describes the inexperience of the Rough Riders in military maneuvers during basic training in San Antonio, Texas and the confusion and unpreparedness of the troops as they traveled to Tampa, Florida and Cuba. Parker further details the efforts of the Rough Riders in battles at Las Guasimas, Kettle Hill, and San Juan Hill, and the death of Bucky O’Neill.
1978-01-24
Fred C. Ainsworth, Adjutant General of the United States Army, writes to Assistant Secretary of War Oliver regarding the Army service record of Leonard Wilson under General Joseph Wheeler. Although General Wheeler’s report has not been found, several people have attested to Wilson’s effectiveness.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-20
This memorandum describes the candidacy of Oscar R. Hundley for appointment as judge to various openings in Alabama. Hundley’s numerous endorsers are listed. Objections to his appointment are discussed, along with Hundley’s responses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-08
General Wheeler praises Theodore Roosevelt in a newspaper article. Wheeler discusses Roosevelt’s involvement in the military and the battle at San Juan Hill as well as his future as governor of New York.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1898-1900
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 Chickamauga, Archibald Gracie discusses the role of General George H. Thomas in the Battle of Chickamauga. Gracie’s account differs from the generally accepted history, but he states it is based on true reports and records.
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.