The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-15
as ready to fight as he is to talk.

The men who Will rally around his
standard must be sound in body, able
and willing to fight and obey orders.
No man will be enlisted in this COM
mand unless he is prepared to endure
hardships and subject himself to the
severest discipline necessary to perfect
military organization. Including officers
and men, the complement of the regi-
ment will be 80.
Already recruit ng sergeants are en-
rslling the nan es OF volunteers, and the
list will be carefully revised, with view
to selecting only such as are capable Of
forming the finest body of light cavalry
in the world.
At the present writing more than
$500 applications for assignment to this
regiment have been received.
Brave and courageous spirits from
Massachusetts, New York, Virginia,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Colorado, Hi
nois, North Dakota and Wyoming have
applications for assignment to this regi-
ment. Many of these will Of necessity
have to be passed over, as it is the in
tention of the organizers of the command
to draw upon the great northwest for
the rank and file OF the regiment.
1t is proposed to have this command
organized, equipped and ready for
action within the next ten DAYS. The
rendezvous will be in San Antonio,
Texas.
The officers and men will wear the
regulation cavalry uniform, adaptable
to the climate OF Cuba. Good horses,
good constitutions, good habits and per-
feet discipline will be required. This
regiment is organized for business and
"no bad men are wanted" The com
mand will be armed with the best
modern rifles, rsvolvers and machetes.
The man who is to command the
'Rough Riders was known throughout
the West in the eighties as the Fighting
doctor" For gallantry in the Geronimo
campaign he was given a Congressional
medal, for it was reported of him that
he had saved the command at time
when all OF the officers except himself
and one other had broken down as a re-
suit of the hard campaign. He was a
surgeon then, stationed in Arizona, but
his career was more of active soldering
than of surgery.
Colonel Leonard Wood vent into the
army in 1885. His home was Boston.
He reached the fort in Arizona which
was to be his headquarters at 7 O'Clock
one evening in June 1885. The next
morning at 1 o'clock he was in the field.
That was the beginning of the Apache
campaign. From then until March 1887,
the troops were in the field, and during
that time Colonel Wood was with them,
making three long trips into Mexico, two
OF them more than two thousand miles
in length. The first two years of his
duty in Arizona he was under Crook, and
was in the field pretty much all the time.
In the Geronimo campaign under
Miles he was in command of infantry
for considerable part of the time, and
also of scouts.
1t was during a portion of this cam
paign, when the heat of the Southwest
was 50 terrific that the men travelled in
their underclothes, and all the officers
except Wood and one other broke down,
that he found himself at the head of a
portion of the army. During this time
he and his men covered fifteen hundred
miles on foot and about one thousand
miles on horseback.
About three weeks after this trip had
been completed five of the Indians who
had been captured escaped Wood took
eight picked men and started after them.
He and his little command were gone
four months before they returned with
their Indians. The search carried them
into the heart of Mexico. They went as
far as the Yaqui Valley, down in the
State OF Sinaloa, into the heart of
mountainous region, which was as I'M
settled and as uninhabited as were the
mountainous regions of the West before
the gold discoveries.
Wood had an active part in the Kidd
outbreak in 1883. He remained in Ar-
IONA that wear and the next, and then
was transferred to California for four
years, and was at the Sierra Nevada
camp. After that he was two years at
Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta, and then came
to Washington as a member of General
Miles personal staff.
President Mckinley has named two Of
the majors for the regiment. One Of
these is Maj lIersey, adjutant general
Of New Mexico and the other is Alec
Brodie, one OF the best known citizens of
Arizona.