24 April 1777

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Expects Henry will disapprove the most recent actions of the unit he is serving in. Says he did not wish to participate himself, but did so when his colonel said that not to would forever sully his name. Is living "in the stile of soldiers, lodging on the floor...eating out of Wooden Bowls, Gallanting with the Ladies." His unit is remaining with General Spencer, keeping sentry over his person. Finds sentry duty good for "Humour or...variety." Despite these obstacles is still committed to joining the army and has left many recently purchased goods behind. Hopes Lucy and her daughter are…

GLC02437.00578

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Roosevelt and officers riding abreast of one another.

GLC07002.44

1898 ca.

Burton, James, fl. 1898

Photograph

Title: "View of El Caney."

Shows three soldiers standing on a hill overlooking the town.

GLC07002.45

1898 ca.

Photograph

Title: "The place where the Guasimas fight started."

Shows a dirt path emerging from a wooded area.

GLC07002.46

1898 ca.

Burton, James, fl. 1898

Photograph

Title: "Rough Riders in the trenches, San Juan."

View of soldiers standing in a long, narrow trench. White paint has been applied to the upper portion of the image.

GLC07002.47

1898 ca.

Burton, James, fl. 1898

Photograph

Title: "One of the machine guns in the roughrider's trenches."

Title from inscription on verso. Image shows six men in a trench, all facing away from the camera. Machine gun visible beside second man from right. Ink and white paint have been applied to lower left corner of image.

GLC07002.48

10 July 1898

Burton, James, fl. 1898

Photograph

Title: "9th Infantry firing from Trenches on San Juan Hill, Sunday the 10th of July."

Rear view of approximately ten armed soldiers in a trench. Stamp of photographer on back; ink and white paint on lower left corner of image.

GLC07002.49

1898 ca.

Photograph

Title: "Bomb proofs thrown up by the Rough Riders to protect them from the dread enfilade fire of sheel [shell?] and shrapnel from the Spanish lines."

Shows a single soldier standing on a battlefield littered with clothes, buckets, rifles, and other paraphernalia. The soldier's face is obscured. A crude shelter is visible behind him.

GLC07002.50

1898 ca.

Photograph

Title: "A near view of the house and villa taken in the first charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan; they came from the right."

Shows one soldier with rifle and shovel in the foreground, and a house situated atop a hill. Two Rough Riders appear in the middleground. Image noticeably retouched on the bottom left.

GLC07002.51

1898 ca.

Photograph

Title: "Colonel Roosevelt and Rough Riders on San Juan Hill "

Shows large group of soldiers gathered around the American flag with Theodore Roosevelt at the center. Portion of typewritten description captured in photo: "…, at the top of the hill which they captured…[B]attle of San Juan. By William Dinwiddie. 1898." This is a modern black and white print. Library of Congress reproduction stamp on verso.

GLC07002.52

1898 ca.

Photograph

Title: "Company K of the Rough Riders."

Shows two lines of men standing shoulder to shoulder, with area of tents separating the two lines.

GLC07002.53

1898 ca.

New York Herald

Photograph

Title: "Spanish officers being converged under a flag of truce to the exchange of Holson and his men."

Title from inscription on verso. Rear view of mounted officers on dirt path with additional soldiers observing from hill overlooking path.

GLC07002.54

circa 1898

Photograph

Title: Rear view of procession of mounted soldiers.

Truce flag visible in center of image. Ink applied to lower right corner of photograph.

GLC07002.55

1898 ca.

Photograph

Title: Rough Riders accompanying Spanish officers

Spanish officers (in white with blindfold). Image shows both mounted and unmounted men in profile.

GLC07002.56

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Roosevelt with another American officer

Possibly Col. Wood or General Wheeler. Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front.

GLC07002.57

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Roosevelt attempting to pet an eagle

Accompanied by a group of men, a dog, and a lion cub. Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front.

GLC07002.58

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Another view of Roosevelt petting eagle, while Rough Rider tames lion cub.

A group looks on, including two women at far right, one holding a child. Stamp on verso. Mount is torn on the lower right corner, but the image is fine condition.

GLC07002.59

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Third view of Roosevelt petting eagle

With bird leaning forward perhaps in attempt to take flight. Dog and lion cub in center of photo, with troops looking on.

GLC07002.60

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Roosevelt and large group of officers and soldiers.

Injured man in civilian dress at far left, and camp visible in background. Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front.

GLC07002.61

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Roosevelt and several men with backs to camera and heads bowed .

Two women and two young girls at right of photograph. Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front .

GLC07002.62

1898 ca.

Scribner's magazine

Photograph

Title: Roosevelt (in full-length profile) presenting Frederic Remington's statue of a bronco (on table behind Roosevelt)

Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front,

GLC07002.63

September 17, 1814

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Col. Andrew Haynes

Battle at Fort Bowyer, Mobile Point [Ala.]: "I stop the mail to state the glorious news, that Fort Bowyer is safe, the British and allies severely drubbed..."

GLC07983.02

3 January 1778

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Military advice for George Washington]

Written from Artillery Park of Great Valley (Valley Forge), Pennsylvania. Knox discusses the necessity of recruiting more men. Argues that New York City is of greater importance to the British than any other place due to its accessibility by way of water. Writes, "The disagreeable circumstances to which the loss of New York would reduce the Enemy operate so strongly on my mind, that were the numbers there fully ascertained, their works of defence & ca so as to render the Success of a Coup de Main probable, I should most readily give my opinion to open the Campaign by an attack upon…

GLC02437.00683

January 18, 1778

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Later copy. Previous catalog record noted that this is a copy. Knox had planned to travel to New England by way of Albany, New York, so he could see Lincoln and Benedict Arnold, but his late departure will prevent him from taking that route. Comments on Lincoln's recovery (his leg was badly injured during the Saratoga campaign in 1777). Congratulates Lincoln on the victory at Saratoga, New York: "The success with which your exertions have been crowned, and the ample security it affords at present to this and the neighboring states must be a pleasing reflection in your pain and confinement…

GLC02437.00691

1864/07/01

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Appointment of John R. Meigs as 1st Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers.

Cosigned by Edwin Stanton.

GLC07059.22