The heroic stand of the Rough Riders at the battle of Las Guasimas, Cuba, on 24 June 1898; Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is seen second from left, from Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, Vol. II

by W.A. Rodgers

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A pause in a boxing match aboard the USS Brooklyn, ca 1898. Library of Congress.

Letter from Governor Theodore Roosevelt Asking for Copies of the Muster Rolls of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry for Use in Writing His Book, The Rough Riders

Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's OfficeSeries: Oversized Material and Document FilesFile Unit: 536595-AGO-1914 T. Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY. Jany. 4th, 1899. To the Adjutant General, Washington, D.C. Sir: In connection with a book I am now writing I desire a copy of the muster rolls of each troop of the First Volunteer Calvary made out and forwarded to me. I will be glad to pay for this if necessary. May I ask if this can be done? Very respectfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [hand stamp] OFFICE OF ADJUTANT GENERAL [hand stamp, printed vertically, facing north] JAN 10 [center of hand stamp] 184764 [right of stamp number, printed vertically, facing south] 1899 [hand stamp facing north-east] RECORD & PENSION OFFICE [hand stamp facing south-east] JAN 13 [center of hand stamp] 536706 [hand stamp facing south-east] 1899 [bottom of hand stamp] WAR DEPARTMENT [written over number of hand stamp] Albany, N.Y. Jan 4, 1899 [written] Theo. Roosevelt - Gov [written] Requests copy of muster rolls of each troop of the 1st U.S. Vol Calvary [underline] War with Spain. [written] [illegible] to Gov. Roosevelt January 12, 1899 [written] 1 Dec With 536595 [hand stamp] Received A.G.O Jan 6 1899 [written] Rec'd [illegible] [illegible] Jan 9/99 [center of document] FHS

Veterans of 4 different wars from the same town of Geary, Oklahoma, 1940’s. From top left to bottom left, clockwise:

Pearl Perry “Jack” Johnson (1923-1997) born in Davis, Oklahoma. WW2 veteran. Registered for the draft in June 1942.

Hilyeard H “Red” Young (1895-1965). Born in Texas, WW1 veteran, owned a barber shop in 1940.

Andrew Jackson Everist, Sr. (1849-1945), born in Iowa, served in the Illinois 57th Regiment for the Union in 1864-1865 at the age of 15-16. The medal he’s wearing is the Gettysburg 75th Reunion Veteran’s Medal, but it was given to both Union and Confederate vets.

Oscar P Ruth (1872-1961). Born in Illinois, Spanish-American War veteran. Self-employed electrician in 1940.

USS Texas (1892) anchored in a bay, during the Spanish-American War.

Note: this photo is a photochrom, which is "a process for producing colorized images from a single black-and-white photographic negative via the direct photographic transfer of the negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). Because no color information was preserved in the photographic process, the photographer would make detailed notes on the colors within the scene and use the notes to hand paint the negative before transferring the image through colored gels onto the printing plates."

-information from Wikipedia: link

Date: 1898

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53230"

Library of Congress: LOT 13923, no. 222

🇺🇲 Happy 248th Birthday to the United States Navy - Semper Fortis ⚓.

Bayonets!

Even if Spain was responsible for the destruction of the USS Maine (it wasn't), the Spanish-American War was worse.

Pearl Harbor was bad. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were worse.

The policies Allende would have implemented would have been bad. The US installing Pinochet was worse.

What David Koresh did was bad. What the FBI did in response was worse.

9/11 was bad. The War on Terror is worse.

Many of the things Sadaam did were bad. Bush's lies about WMDs, and the war these lies justified, were worse.

What Hamas did was bad. What the IDF is doing in response is worse.

This isn't hard, people.

Let 'em play their flutes and stirrup my boots and place them back to front Cause I won't be back on the rider-less black and I'm finished in my hunt I wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war I wanna be in the cavalry, but I won't ride home no more

FUCKI G HELP

How do you use this god forsaken website

Model 1898 Krag-Jørgensen bayonet

 "Tell Admiral Maine blown up and destroyed . . . “ 

Telegram to the Secretary of the Navy, February 15, 1898. 

Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library

Series: Area Files

File Unit: 11-15 February 1898

Transcription: 

The Western Union Telegraph Company

RECEIVED at Corcoran Bldg, S.E. Cor. 15th & F Sts., Washington, D.C.

  8C0 0 PR GVT  51 Collect Gvt   Via Jax. 213 AM.

Key West Fla Feb 15-98

Sec-Nav. Washn D.C.

Sigsbee wires " Tell Admiral Maine blown up and destroyed Send lightHouse Tenders Many killed and wounded Dont send War vessel if others available"

  I have sent Erecssen to Sicard with sigsbee's dispatch about disaster Mangrove getting up steam to go over shall I also send Fern?

       Forsythe.

Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero of the Spanish American War, was proclaimed 'the most kissed man in America' by newspapers of the time.

USS Oregon (BB-3) in New York Harbor during the Spanish-American War victory naval review, circa August 20-21, 1898.

Note: the side-wheel steamer in the right background, belonging to the Iron Steamboat Co.

NHHC: NH 105572

Allegheny Cemetery 4423-66