Brownsville
Raid, 1906
"THE TROUBLE
IN Brownsville, Texas, began around midnight on August 13, 1906, and
lasted about ten minutes. The official records lists two casualties
- a young bartender killed, a police lieutenant wounded - but the records
were compiled by white men who counted as casualties only other white
men, not the one hundred and sixty-seven black soldiers who were administratively
savaged by order of President Theodore Roosevelt on the basis of information
he had received from a blundering military bureaucracy headed by his
heir presumptive, William Howard Taft."
Source:
John D. Weaver, BROWNSVILLE RAID (College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1992) at http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/ap_ex.htm