Aug. 15, 1898: An army is about to invade Montauk. A little before 11 a.m. that morning, the troop transport ship Miami, anchored in Fort Pond Bay, lurched into motion. Led by a tugboat, the 3,050-ton ...

Col. Theodore Roosevelt had every reason to feel, as he would put it, "bully," when he strode on to the dock at Fort Pond Bay in Montauk. It was Aug. 15, 1898, and just six weeks earlier, TR had led ...

The Friends of Sagamore Hill opened the 6th Annual Dr. John A. Gable Lecture Series on Tuesday March 23 with a lecture by author Henry Osmers. Mr. Osmer said it was the egalitarian persona of TR the ...

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Nearly a hundred years ago, Army Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders arrived at Fort Pond in Montauk to set up camp and recover from the wounds and diseases they suffered in the ...

This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguished military men are seen overlooking the immense ...

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The only way to save the men stationed at federal Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, was to send them home. In September 1898, President McKinley heard of the horrors of the camp - ...