Partial TLS, one page, 7 x 4, no date but circa 1902. In full: "It is getting to be a case as to whether I can longer permit great damage to be done to the army for the sake of avoiding trouble myself. Miles is a perfect curse. He has been a detriment to the army for the last eight years. No man of his rank has ever had so purely faked a record as a soldier. Now I do not know whether I am justified in avoiding trouble for myself by keeping in a man who deliberately works," continuing in his own hand, "damage to the service; and who has not done a stroke of decent work since I have come in." In fine condition, with trimmed edges. This letter appears to date to 1902, early in Roosevelt's presidency, following criticism leveled by Nelson A. Miles over the conduct of US troops in the Philippines. Miles also had humiliated Roosevelt by publicly pointing out that he had never charged up San Juan Hill, but up the nearby Kettle Hill, and he also actively opposed Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the US Army. Needless to say, Miles drew the contempt of the president despite his distinguished record dating back to the Civil War. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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