Beschreibung:

Lot of 43 telegrams between New Mexico Governor Miguel Otero, Leonard Wood, the President and Secretary of War, Captain Charles Cooper and a few others. One of the earliest is from Wood to Cooper: "No figure card No medical examination card required, simply form upon which soldier signs agreement to serve. Papers have been sent but dont wait unless you have to you can have medical examinations completed and men take the oath." Apparently the response from men of the Southwest was greater than expected. A week later (May 6, 1898) Wood telegraphs: "Three hundred good men from New Mexico will be enough unless fully three twenty already enlisted try to keep it down to about three hundred...." In one telegram it is mentioned that many recruits are cowboys - a ready-made cavalry! By the first of June, the Governor was purchasing supplies on the open market for the use of volunteers. There is a series of telegrams recommending Capt. Cooper to be appointed Colonel of the 10th cavalry, a Territorial Regiment of men from Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The governor telegraphs General Nelson Miles: "I have telegraphed President McKinley strongly endorsing Capt. Chas. L. Cooper, Tenth U.S. cavalry, for Colonel of territorial regiment now being organized here. I will greatly appreciate your kind co-operation New Mexico Rough Riders mustered by Captain Cooper would join in the request if here." Condition: Most are brown and fairly brittle.