On behalf of the Rough Riders I dedicate this book to the officers and men of the five regular regiments which together with mine made up the cavalry division at Santiago Theodore Roosevelt Executive ...

Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo! a nation’s hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum⁠— Saying, “Come, Freemen, come! Ere your heritage be wasted,” said the q...

During the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition, I had preached, with all the fervor and zeal I possessed, our duty to...

Up to the last moment we were spending every ounce of energy we had in getting the regiment into shape. Fortunately, there were a good many vacancies among the officers, as the original number of 780 ...

Just before leaving Tampa we had been brigaded with the First (white) and Tenth (colored) Regular Cavalry under Brigadier-General S. B. M. Young. We were the Second Brigade, the First Brigade consisti...

On June 30th we received orders to hold ourselves in readiness to march against Santiago, and all the men were greatly overjoyed, for the inaction was trying. The one narrow road, a mere muddy track a...

When the shrapnel burst among us on the hillside we made up our minds that we had better settle down to solid siege work. All of the men who were not in the trenches I took off to the right, back of t...

Two or three days after the surrender the cavalry division was marched back to the foothills west of El Caney, and there went into camp, together with the artillery. It was a most beautiful spot besid...

[Before it was sent, this letter was read to and approved by every officer of the regiment who had served through the Santiago campaign.] [Copy.] Camp Wikoff, September 10, 1898. To the Secretary of W...

[The following is the report of the Associated Press correspondent of the “round-robin” incident. It is literally true in every detail. I was present when he was handed both letters; he was present wh...

It has been suggested to me that when Bucky O’Neill spoke of the vultures tearing our dead, he was thinking of no modern poet, but of the words of the prophet Ezekiel: “Speak unto every feathered fowl...

(Congressional Record, 55th Congress, Third Session, Volume 32, Part II, Page 1250). Nominations by the President. To be Colonel by Brevet. Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, First Volunteer Caval...

Headquarters Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, May 11, 1905. Dear Mr. President: As some discussion has arisen in the public prints regarding the battle of San Juan, Cuba, July 1, 1898, and your pe...

[From a brief speech made to his men by Colonel Roosevelt after Sunday services on September 4, 1898.] I have waited this opportunity of speaking to you before we parted. I feel, and I know you all fe...

See Lieutenant Müller y Tejeiro, Combates y Capitulación de Santiago de Cuba, page 136. The Lieutenant speaks as if only one echelon, of seven companies and two guns, was engaged on the 24th. The offi...