AUGUST 8, 1898 — OCTOBER 15, 1898
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August Illustrations
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— New York Herald, July 27, 1898.
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— The World, August 5, 1898.
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— New York Herald, August 6, 1898.
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— Chicago Tribune, August 7, 1898.
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— New York Times, August 9, 1898.
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— The World, August 9, 1898.
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— Drawn by Colonel Forwood, Chief Surgeon, The World, August 9, 1898.
“The General Hospital will be one of the most complete camp hospitals ever erected. There will be one central covered passageway, and at the sea end of this will be the quarters for the surgeons. Nearby will be the operating tent and the tent for the storage of hospital supplies. From the covered passageway will range sixteen rows of tents containing at first 500 cots…..The chief surgeon does not think that there will be more than 500 cases of sickness that will need constant and unremitting attention.” — New York Times, August 8, 1898.
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— Commercial Advertiser (NY), August 10, 1898.
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— “Asleep in the Rain,” The World, August 11, 1898.
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— Red Cross Ambulance, “carries four, with other improved facilities,” Washington Post, August 12, 1898.
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— New York Herald, August 12, 1898.
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“Mrs. Walworth Caring For The Sick.”
— The World, August 12, 1898.
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— Masthead, New York Press.
— The Sun, August 13, 1898.
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— Boston Globe, August 21, 1898
— The World, August 14, 1898.
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America’s first veterans of a war fought overseas on foreign soil
— US Fifth Army Corps —
returned home from Santiago de Cuba to Montauk Point in August & September, 1898.
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VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
The VFW traces its deepest organizational roots to Camp Wikoff. Thirteen soldiers of the 17th Infantry, largely in response to the agony and suffering of troops at Camp Wikoff, formed the American Veterans of Foreign Service in 1899, which became the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1914. In 1917, Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to join that organization.
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— The World, August 15, 1898.
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— The World, August 15, 1898.
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— Boston Globe, August 16, 1898.
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— James Gordon Bennett, Illustrator, New York Herald, August 16, 1898.
— New York Herald, August 16, 1898
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— New York Herald, August 17, 1898.
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— W.H. Shindler, Illustrator, New York Press, August 18, 1898.
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— New York Herald, August 17, 1898.
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— W.H.Shindler, New York Press, August 18, 1898
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— Chambers, Illustrator, The World, August 19, 1898.
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— Illustration, New York Herald, August 16, 1898.
— Copy, New York Times, August 19, 1898.
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Secretary of War Russell A. Alger. — Boston Globe, August 20, 1898.
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— The World, August 20, 1898.
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— New York Press, August 21, 1898
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— The World, August 23, 1898.
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— Commercial Advertiser, August 24, 1898.
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— New York Journal, August 25, 1898
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— The World, August 26, 1898.
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— Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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— Homer Davenport, Illustrator, New York Journal, August 26, 1898.
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— New York Journal, August 26, 1898
— Lieutenant William Tiffany, 29 years old, an officer in Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, died on August 25th in Boston, shortly after his return from Santiago. The World, August 26, 1898.
He was a member of the Knickerbocker Club, a grandnephew of Commodore Perry, and a nephew of August Belmont.
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— The Sun, August 26, 1898.
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— New York Press, August 27, 1898
Captain Higgins, 25, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a lawyer, surveyor, civil engineer, electrician, telegraph operator, photographer and draughtsman. — The Sun.
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— New York Journal, August 27, 1898.
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— The World, August 27, 1898.
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— Nelan, Illustrator, New York Herald, August 27, 1898.
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— Haydon Jones, Illustrator, The World, August 27, 1898.
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— Cory, Illustrator, The World, August 28.
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— The World, August 28, 1898
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— Evening Post, August 29, 1898.
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— Nelan, Illustrator, New York Herald, August 30, 1898.
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— 71st New York Volunteer. Homer Davenport, Illustrator. New York Journal, August 30, 1898.
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Landing Scene at Montauk Pier. — Chicago Tribune, August 31, 1898.
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The Transport Allegheny. New York Evening Journal, August 31, 1898.
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— The World, August 31, 1898.
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Camp Wikoff Album ….. In Process
Content copyright Jeff Heatley. Content selected from —
BULLY! Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders & Camp Wikoff, Montauk, New York — 1898. A Newspaper Chronicle with Roosevelt’s Letters.
Researched, Edited & Composed by Jeff Heatley.
509 Pages, Published by the Montauk Historical Society & The Pushcart Press, 1998.
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Visit: Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, 1898 / September & October Illustrations
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— Boston Globe, June 6, 1898
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— New York Herald, August 20, 1898.
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— New York Journal, August 27, 1898.
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— New York Times, August 31, 1898.
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— New York Herald (from August 25, 1898, edition). Colonel John Jacob Astor, with others, delivered the “choicest delicacies and needed food” to Camp Wikoff in late August, sailing on his yacht, Nourmahal, from Newport, Rhode Island.
— New York Herald, August 25, 1898
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— New York Press, August 28, 1898
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