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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS as president, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, February 13, 1908. Roosevelt writes to George C. Ross, the Chairman of the Grand Army of the Republic Banquet Arrangements Committee, in full: “I thank you for the kind invitation to me to attend the banquet in honor of the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and regret that it will not be possible for me to accept. I wish all success to the Grand Army gathering. There is no other set of men to whom we owe as much as to those represented in this gathering; because it is to them we owe the fact that we have a Nation at all.” Three horizontal mailing folds, some light creasing, uniform toning with a slightly heavier area along the top edge, and some trivial foxing, otherwise fine condition.

Roosevelt sends his regrets that he would be unable to attend the Grand Army of the Republic Banquet in honor of the Civil War veterans organization's Commander-in-Chief Charles Germman Burton, which was held February 20 at Ebbitt House. Burton was only 15 when he enlisted in the army as a private of Company C, Nineteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, serving in the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland, participating in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and in skirmishes before Corinth until October 1862 when he was discharged for "physical disability."

Roosevelt's special relationship with Civil War veterans began with his own family—his uncle's experiences in war and his father's guilt for not having served. To make up for this "lack of service," his father became an advocate for veterans rights, advocating jobs for disabled veterans who had their hands and feet amputated. A frequent speaker at G.A.R. banquets and events, the president kept the contributions of Civil War veterans in the public's eye lest their sacrifices be forgotten. In 1904, Roosevelt expanded the Civil War disability pensions to include old age benefits; under this program, thousands of Union Veterans became eligible for such noncontributory pensions.
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