BULLY! Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders

& Camp Wikoff, Montauk, New York — 1898

Researched, Composed & Edited by Jeff Heatley 

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—– 2nd Edition / Camp Wikoff’s 125th Anniversary —–

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Published by Montauk Historical Society & East End Press

w/ Grant from the Gardiner Foundation

ON SALE NOW  

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w/ ADDED APPENDIX 

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President McKinley’s Message to Congress, April 11, 1898

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Richard Harding Davis’ “Dashing Bravery of the Rough Riders”, July 4, 1898 

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Lieut. John Joseph Pershing’s Account of Charge at San Juan Hill 

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Citation — Medal of Honor Awarded Lieut. Col. Roosevelt, 2001 

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Gen. Shafter’s Ultimatum to Gen. Toral, July 6, 1898 

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America Emerges As An International Power / Gen. of the Armies Pershing 

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Spain Leaves the Western World 

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Army Beef Scandal of 1898 

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Knickerbocker & Rough Rider William Tiffany Dies of Starvation 

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Roosevelt’s Testimony to War Commissions Board 

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American Red Cross / Report by Executive Howard Townsend, 1898

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Transport Allegheny returning from Santiago de Cuba — one of more than 40 Transports.

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“We have everything,” said a young lieutenant.

“We have life and we have death.”

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22,500 Soldiers of General Shafter’s Fifth Army Corps arrived home

at Fort Pond Bay from Cuba, including — 

Roosevelt’s Rough Riders — War Heroes

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WAR COMMISSION REPORT / FEBRUARY 1899

On the whole, it may be said that Montauk Point was an ideal place for the isolation of troops
who had been exposed to or had yellow fever, and for the recuperation of those
greatly debilitated by malarial attacks of marked severity.

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Soldiers of Gen. Shafter’s Fifth Army Corps

were the first veterans of a war fought overseas

on foreign soil in American military history.

They returned home at Fort Pond Bay, Montauk,

August & September, 1898.

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Books available at following bookstores: 

 

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  • Theodore’s, Oyster Bay
  • …other locations being added.

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For copies & further information:

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