Colonel Leonard Wood's Jacket and Hat
name: label: wearer
content: Wood, Leonard
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Light khaki jacket with blue facings with epaulettes and gold-colored buttons. Wool felt hat with cotton braids and gilt threads.
label: Description
content: Specific History
label: Description
content: Jacket and hat worn by Colonel Leonard Wood in Cuba.
label: Description
content: While serving as an assistant surgeon in the Apache Campaign of the summer of 1886, Wood was awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1895, he was the White House physician to President Grover Cleveland. He began his long friendship with Theodore Roosevelt during his years in Washington. Following the Spanish-American War, he served as military governor of Cuba until 1902. As a brigadier general he fought the Moros during the Philippine Insurrection in 1904 and less than a year later was named army chief of staff by President William Howard Taft. In less than a decade, he had jumped from a captain in the Medical Corps to the highest post in the army.
place: label: used
content: Cuba
topic: label: related event
content: Spanish-American War
label: related event
content: The Emergence of Modern America
label: related event
content: Philippine–American War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Leonard Wood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.37018
label: catalog number
content: 37018
label: accession number
content: 114823
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coat
label: Other Terms
content: coat; Man; Army; General Officer; Officer; Summer; Service
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/2 in x 25 in; 74.93 cm x 63.5 cm