Beschreibung:

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE Appointment signed for noted Rough Rider Woodbury Kane . "On board transport Miami": 14 August 1898. Partly printed document accomplished in manuscript appointing Kane Sergeant in Troop "K" of the 1st Regiment U.S. Calvary Volunteers, signed by Theodore Roosevelt as Colonel and countersigned by fellow Rough Rider Maxwell Keyes. 10 1/8 x 15 inches (25.7 x 38 cm); framed with a large contemporary photograph of Kane in uniform, the back marked in a period hand "Woodbury Kane/Rough Riders." Folds, a few brown spots and stains, a good example of a rare form. Woodbury Kane, a Harvard friend of Theodore Roosevelt, enlisted with the Rough Riders upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in April 1898 and served in the volunteer cavalry during the length of the engagement through August of that year. Kane was a notable Rough Rider as he was wounded at the July 1st Battle of San Juan Hill and, always identifiable by his impeccable uniform, is depicted in the foreground of Frederick Remington's famous The Charge of the Rough Riders. As a manuscript note on this document points out, the blank forms needed for appointments were not available in the field that summer and Kane received this signed document on August 14th, the date the Rough Riders are known to have arrived back at home. A very rare document, we find no examples of a Roosevelt signed appointment of a Rough Rider in the auction record. C