Rendering of Original Camp Wikoff Medallion by Illustrator George Bloem, 1997.
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— Pulitzer’s The World / Illustrator, Heyer
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Alger’s Elegy in a Nation’s Churchyard
— William Randolph Hearst’s New York Evening Journal
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Milk For A Prostrate Regular
Surgeon Aby and Mrs. Mott found this soldier of the Third Infantry in the agony of death
on the ground at Camp Wikoff.
— Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Illustrator Hayden Jones.
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Succumbed to Exhaustion
—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World
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Generals Wheeler & Shafter
— Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Haydon Jones, Illustrator
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President William McKinley
Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Forces
— Boston Globe
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John Alexander Calls to the President to Visit Him
— Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Carter, Illustrator
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President McKinley Addresses The Troops
Great Plain, Montauk / September 3, 1898
— James Gordon Bennett Jr.’s New York Herald
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— Joseph Pulitzer’s The World
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Camp Scene on a Sunday morning at Camp Wikoff
—– James Gordon Bennett. Jr.’s New York Herald / W.H. Shindler, Illustrator
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Rough Rider Dilwyn Bell
— Joseph Medill’s Chicago Tribune
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Helen Gould
She visited with the soldiers in the General Hospital and donated thousands of dollars for supplies.
— William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal
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Chicagoans Greeting The Barge Bearing The First Illinois Boys
— Joseph Medill’s Chicago Tribune
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— James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald
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—– Ervin Wardman, Editor, New York Press
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General Joseph Wheeler
A General with the Confederacy, then rose to that rank in the U.S. Army,
one of only four to do the same, and the only one to see action in both wars.
Graduated West Point, 1858. To Americans, Gen. Wheeler personified the re-unification
of the nation following the Civil War. Joseph Wheeler also served sixteen years
in Congress representing Alabama.
—– New York Herald / T. D. Boyce, Illustrator
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Naval Cadet Thomas Wheeler
—– New York Herald / Thompson, Illustrator
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Where They Lie Buried At Camp Wikoff
—– Pulitzer’s The World / Hayden Jones, Illustrator
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—– Collier’s Weekly / Albert Sterner, Illustrator
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Miss Eleanor L. Coe, Volunteer Nurse
— Joseph Pulitzer’s The World
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—– New York Herald / Nelan, Illustrator
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Frederic Remington’s Bronze Bronco Buster Statue Given by the Rough Riders
to Col. Roosevelt in Appreciation of his Leadership
—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World
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—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World
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Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / George Luks, Illustrator
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—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Carter, Illustrator
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Our Rough Rider Visitors
—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Williams, Illustrator
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Rough Rider Bill Woods: “Bronco Buster”
—– William O. Taylor’s Boston Globe
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Horses Dear to the Rough Riders
Pass Under the Auction Hammer
Perry Tiffany bought his Brother William’s Sorrel for $ 45.
Left / James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald
Right / Joseph Pulitzer’s The World
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—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Carter, Illustrator
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Rough Rider Kennedy with ‘Teddy’, the Golden Eagle mascot of the Rough Riders.
—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Carter, Illustrator
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Republican Governor Frank S. Black, who was seeking re-election.
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Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Theodore Roosevelt, nominated September 27, 1898.
— The World / C. Mortimer, Illustrator
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Roosevelt Fires First Campaign Gun at Carnegie Hall, October 4, 1898
— Ervin Wardman, Editor, New York Press / W.H. Shindler, Illustrator
—– Joseph Pulitzer’s The World / Carter, Illustrator
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A Modern Paladin
Frank Hatton / Beriah Wilkins, Publishers’ Washington Post
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Reubina Hyde Walworth, Heroic Nurse
Ellen Walworth’s daughter, Reubina, died at the Presbyterian Hospital, NYC, on October 18th, of a malignant form of typhoid fever that she had contracted while serving as a nurse in the Detention Hospital at Camp Wikoff. Before volunteering to serve as a nurse at Camp Wikoff, she had been an art student at Vassar.
Text, Joseph Pulitzer’s The World | Illustration, / Ervin Wardman, Editor, New York Press
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THE ROUGH RIDER’S LATEST CHARGE
— The World / page 450
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—– William O. Taylor’s Boston Globe
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WAR HERO > GOVERNOR, 1898
Left, Joseph N. Hallock’s The Traveler (Southold)
Right, William O. Taylor’s Boston Globe
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Newsboys’ Cries
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Summer of 1898
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