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110. Hag.LW.I.151; ib., 146–7
111. Mil.171; Her.236–7; Rho.71–3; ib., 74; Mor.822–3. See also May.220: “Only a few prescient Europeans had even guessed that the war might extend to Spain’s Philippine possessions. The best informed writers had not credited the American navy with such enterprise and efficiency.” In 1902 JDL tried, not very convincingly, to discount TR’s large responsibility for the success of the Battle of Manila. He claimed, in the privacy of his Journal (Jan. 3), that “… of my own notion I took [Dewey’s] name to the President and recommended the assignment.” Long had no choice but to recommend it, in that the President had already asked for it. He also denied as “a lie” the story that TR armed Dewey at the last minute with a special despatch of ammunition, but TR never made any such claim. Her.206 shows that JDL was actually obstructive of TR’s support plans for Dewey in early 1898. See Mil.150 fn.; Bea.63; Alfonso, Oscar S., TR and the Philippines (NY, 1974).
112. Mor.822; TR.War.Di. May 6, 1898; Mor. 823, 824, 831, 825 (for JDL’s equally fulsome letter to TR, see Bis.I.104), 823; TR.War.Di. May 12.
113. Long, Journal, Apr. 25, 1898, LON.
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Important sources not in Bibliography: 1. Davis, Richard Harding, The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns (Scribner’s, 1898). 2. Cosmas, Graham A., An Army for an Empire: The U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War (U. Missouri Press, 1971).
1. Sun clip. n.d., TR.Scr.
2. TR.Wks.XI.8. (This vol. of ib. contains complete text of The Rough Riders. Henceforth cited as RR.) TR was able to accept only one application in ten from his alma mater. Leonard Wood, too, was a Harvard man. Other sources: TR to B, May 5, 1898; RR. 10–11; Wes.56–7, qu. Denver Evening Post, May 4.
3. RR. 10; Wis.7–8.
4. Jones, Virgil Carrington, Roosevelt’s Rough Riders (Doubleday, 1971) 35; RR.9; Stallman, R. W., Stephen Crane: A Biography (NY, 1968) 385.
5. TR to B, May 5, 1898; RR.8–10, 27–30; Wes.56–7; Cosby, Arthur S., “A Roosevelt Rough Rider Looks Back,” unpublished ms., 1957, TRC, 27.
6. RR. 10.
7. TR.War.Di. May 15, 1898; Jones, Rough Riders, 35; Hag.LW.I.151–2.
8. Wes.79; Hag.LW.I.151.
9. Ib., 152; Jones, Rough Riders, 36.
10. RR. 10. “Why, he knows every man in the regiment by name”—a Rough Rider qu. in McLure’s Magazine, Nov. 1898; Sun, May 8.
11. RR.16.
12. Ib.
13. Jones, Rough Riders, 282–340 has a complete alphabetical roster of the regiment.
14. Mor.832.
15. Hag.LW.I.147; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 25; RR.22; pics in TRC.
16. The following timetable of a typical day at Camp Wood is based on a letter of George Hamner (d. Feb. 6, 1973) to his sweetheart, qu. in Walker, Dale, “The Last of the Rough Riders,” Montana, XII.3 (July 1973) 43–4.
17. Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 36.
18. RR.23–4; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 39; see also Wes.80. Mounted drill usually took place at the nearby Mission of San Jose, where there was more space available. Ib., 80.
19. Prentice, Lt. Royal A., “The Rough Riders,” New Mexico Historical Review, 26.4 (Oct. 1951) and 27.1 (Jan. 1952) 269.
20. Ib., 264; RR. 18–19.
21. Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 39; Jones, Rough Riders, 39.
22. RR.25.
23. Ib., 22; Hall, Thomas W., The Fun and Fighting of the Rough Riders (NY, 1899) 42.
24. Mor.832.
25. Prentice, “The RRs,” 267: “After the day’s work was done there would be hardly a man left in camp, as each troop had its own gateway.”
26. Hall, Fun and Fighting, 42.
27. Ib.
28. This sentence is taken nearly verbatim from ib., 43.
29. See Wes.77; Hag.LW.I.145–6.
30. “Theodore has already a great hold on them—before long he will be able to do anything he likes with them.” Robert Ferguson to Douglas Robinson, c. May 15, 1898 (Alsop Papers, TRC). Wood qu. Hag.LW.I.157.
31. Jones, Rough Riders, 37; TR qu. Hag.LW.I.154. This incident seems mild enough now, but in those pre-prohibition days it was a serious breach of military discipline. The modern equivalent would be for an officer to join his men after drill for a friendly joint of marijuana. “Nectar,” sighed one trooper, “never tasted