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  Statesman Edition
THE ROUGH RIDERS
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

PUBLISHED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE PRESIDENT THROUGH SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CENTURY CO., MESSRS. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, AND G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW    YORK
THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY
MC M I V

copyright 1889, 1894, 1896 by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
This edition is published under arrangement with G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York and London.

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 mansion
albany, N. Y.,
May i, jSgt)

Hark I 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 quick-alarming drum.
"Let me of my heart take counsel;
War is not of Life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come?" But the drum Echoed, "Come!
Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemn-sounding drum.
"But when won the coming battle,
What of profit springs therefrom? What if conquest, subjugation, Even greater ills become?" But the drum Answered, "Come!
You must do the sum to prove it," said the Yankee-answering drum.
—bret hartb
vol. XI.—A

CONTENTS
I.   raising the regiment		5
II.   To cuba	   .	41
III.	general young's fight at las guasima.s .   .	73
IV.	the cavalry at santiago		112
V.   in the trenches		157
VI.   the return home		194
appendices:
A.	Muster-Out Roll		233
B.	Colonel Roosevelt's Report to the Secretary of
War of September icth		282
C.	The "Round Robin" Letter		295
D.	Corrections	   .	301