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67. See Azo.63 for breakdown of total force. Brown, Correspondents’ War, 274. See also Mil.246: “It is a testimonial to General Shafter’s understanding of his men that orders which in almost any other army in the world would have spelled a disaster ended up with a brilliant success.” Brown, Correspondents’ War, 276; Mil.248.
68. Azo.61.
69. Ib., 62–3; TR.War.Di. June 8–14, 1898; Mor.836–43, passim; RR.40–2.
70. Walker, “Rough Riders,” 44; Azo.62–3.
71. RR.14.
72. Azo.63; Davis, Campaigns, 86; RR.42; McIntosh, Burr, The Little I Saw of Cuba (NY, 1898), 44–5. The Yucatán approached Egmont Keys about sunset on May 13, narrowly avoiding a collision with the Matteawan on the way. McIntosh, a Leslie’s photographer, captured the incident on film, and left an interesting footnote to history: “Had the vessel not been brought to a halt the instant she was, it is highly probable that there would have been no Rough Rider deeds to record in Cuba … Thirty-five hundred pounds of dynamite, which was later to be associated with the dynamite gun, rested in her bow.” The final distance separating the two ships was a mere three feet. Ib., 38–44.
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Important sources not in Bibliography: 1. Davis, Richard Harding, The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns (Scribner’s, 1898). 2. McIntosh, Burr, The Little I Saw of Cuba (NY, 1898). 3. Marshall, Edward, The Story of the Rough Riders (NY, 1899).
1. Mor.843; TR.Wks.I.43. Ib. contains the text of The Rough Riders, and is henceforth cited as RR. The former source, written on the morning of June 15, 1898, makes it plain that the thoughts expressed in the latter are those of the night of June 14. Morison, incidentally, errs in identifying TR’s addressee as Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Actually he was writing to his wife. EKR later copied out the letters, minus personal paragraphs, for circulation among members of the family. Original copies in TRB.
2. Mor.843; also RR. 12, 27, 44–5.
3. Ib., 45.
4. Descriptions of the voyage to Cuba are given in Mor.843–4; RR.42.-6; Hag.LW.I.160; Davis, Campaigns, 89–98; Mil.255–8; Azo.64–8; Ranson, E., “British Military and Naval Observers in the Spanish-American War,” Journal of American Studies (GB) 3.1 (July 1969). Following three paragraphs based on these sources.
5. Ranson, “British Observers,” 40. “At night the fleet was as conspicuous as Brooklyn or New York, with the lights of the bridge included.” Davis, Campaigns, 90–1.
6. Ib., 90–1; RR.43.
7. Cosby, Arthur S., “A Roosevelt Rough Rider Looks Back,” unpublished ms., 1957, TRC, 64; Ranson, “British Observers,” 38; RR.46; Azo.60.
8. The mountains were the Sierra Maestra range. Hag.LW.I.160; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 74.
9. Same two sources.
10. Azo. 69; Davis, Campaigns, 102; ib., 102–112.
11. Jones, Virgil Carrington, Roosevelt’s Rough Riders (Doubleday, 1971) 86; war picture-books in TRC. The superlative in praise of Cuba’s beauty of course no longer applies.
12. Davis, Campaigns, 108.
13. The hut was at Asserraderos, twenty miles east of Santiago.
14. Battle orders, qu. Davis, Campaigns, 113. Azo.68; Mil.260–2.
15. Azo.68.
16. Jones, Rough Riders, 92.
17. Azo.72.
18. Mil.262.
19. Jones, Rough Riders, 92–100; McIntosh, Cuba, 56; Azo.73.
20. McIntosh, Cuba, 57; Davis, Campaigns, 115–7; Azo.73; Mil.265; Jones, Rough Riders, 100.
21. Davis, Campaigns, 117–9; Azo.73; Jones, Rough Riders, 65–6.
22. Stephen Bonsal, N.Y. Herald correspondent, qu. Brown, Charles H., The Correspondents’ War (NY, 1967) 307.
23. Smith, Albert, Two Reels and a Crank (NY, 1952) 57.
24. Mil.267; RR.46.
25. Pri.184–5. Just to make sure, TR took twelve extra pairs of spectacles to Cuba.
26. Ranson, British Observers, 42; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 77; McIntosh, Cuba, 64; Prentice, Lt. Royal A., “The Rough Riders,” New Mexico Historical Review, 26–4 (Oct. 1951) and 27.1 (Jan. 1952) 30.
27. Azo.82, 31.
28. Ib.; Pri.189.
29. RR.50.
30. Azo.78–9;