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61. Davis, Campaigns, 148–9; Azo.95.
62. Azo.95.
63. Lawton, qu. Azo.96.
64. RR.50; Azo.83, 95.
65. See Stallman, Crane, 383; Crane, Dispatches, 158.
66. McIntosh, Cuba, 89–90.
67. Brown, Correspondents’ War, 321–2.
68. McIntosh, Cuba, 117; see New York Times, June 27, 1898, “Rough Riders Prove Heroes” for sample press treatment. Not one of the article’s six headlines made reference to any other regiment. For gubernatorial announcement, see ib., June 28.
69. See, e.g., TR.Auto.245 ff.; Foulke, William D., A Hoosier Autobiography (NY, 1922), 119. TR.Auto.245.
70. Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 87.
71. Davis, Campaigns, 167; RR.68; un. clip, TR.Scr.
72. Mor.844.
73. RR.70. Capt. Capron’s body was buried separately. See N.Y.T., June 27, 1898, for another account of the hilltop funeral.
74. Mor.845, 846; RR.67. See Ranson, “British Observers,” for details of the landing operation.
75. Copy entitled “Progressive Principles” in TRB. See also slightly different version in TR.Auto.257–8.
76. Mor.845. TR carried one sack of the beans back to camp himself, over eight miles of jungle road. EKR to Emily Carow, Aug. 8, 1896 (Derby mss.).
77. Qu. Wes.79.
78. Mor.845; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 93; Davis, Campaigns, 176; Azo.99–101.
79. Ranson, British Observers.
80. Davis, Campaigns, 183; Freidel, Splendid Little War, 122; Azo.102. The following descriptions of the battlefield of San Juan are based on prose sources as quoted, plus sketches, maps, and photographs, in, e.g., Lor.312–15; Freidel, Splendid Little War, passim, and Spanish-American war picture book collection in TRC.
81. See Davis, Campaigns, 174 for copy of Shafter’s map. It was, in the opinion of one foreign attaché, so “laughably inadequate” that the Battle of San Juan was fought almost blind. Ranson, “British Observers,” qu. Arthur Lee.
82. Azo.104; Davis, Campaigns, 183; Freidel, Splendid Little War, 120; Hag.LW.I.173.
83. Pri.193.
84. Azo.104–5; Freidel, Splendid Little War, 122 ff; Hag.LW.I.173–4.
85. Davis, Campaigns, 188; Hag.LW.I. 172–3; TR.Auto.245.
86. Davis, Campaigns, 190; Azo.107.
87. Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 96–7.
88. RR.74. The promotions were of course unofficial, and the titles “Acting” until the confirmation and notification from Washington; but wartime conditions made such formalities irrelevant.
89. TR to Hermann Hagedorn, Harvard Club, Aug. 14, 1917: “San Juan was the great day of my life. I rose over those regular army officers like a balloon.”
90. RR.72; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 98; McIntosh, Cuba, 120; Davis, Campaigns, 193; Azo.107; Freidel, War, 144 ill.; RR.75.
91. Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 98.
92. Description by Howard Chandler Christy, war artist, qu. Brown, Correspondents’ War, 338. (TR on June 30, 1898: author assumes he was wearing the same clothes, having slept in them overnight.)
93. RR.74; Azo.110-11, 147.
94. Ib., 110; RR.75. The commander of Lawton’s battery was Captain Allyn Capron, father and namesake of the victim of Las Guásimas. RR.76.
95. Azo.115; Davis, Campaigns, 200 ff.; Hag.LW.I.174.
96. Azo.116. TR to EKR, July 30, 1898.
97. Davis, Campaigns, 217. The reporter describes TR and Gen. Hawkins, leader of Kent’s division, as the most conspicuous figures on the battlefield. But whereas the white-haired general “was so noble a sight that you felt inclined to pray for his safety,” the blue-scarfed colonel, “mounted high on horseback, and charging the rifle-pits at a gallop and quite alone, made you feel that you would like to cheer.” (Ib.) See also Marshall, Story, 187.
98. Azo.117–8; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 103.
99. RR.77; Azo. 118.
100. Davis, Campaigns, 189, 208; RR.81; Azo.120–1; RR.77; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 103–4.
101. RR.77; Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 33; Freidel, War, 157 ill.
102. Cosby, “A RRR Looks Back,” 104, 78; Davis, Campaigns, 204–12.
103. RR.79.
104. RR.78 TR qu. Azo.126.
105. RR.79–80; Davis, Campaigns, 207; Azo.127; Freidel, War, 157.
106. Davis, Campaigns, 204; Mor.853. Lt. Royal Prentice, “Rough Riders,” 34, remembers the fusillade as “a solid sheet of bullets