Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-19
THE ROUGE RIDERS.
Their Famous Charge Up san Juan
Heights 10 victory.

Their Famous Charge Up san Juan
Heights TO victory.
Richard Harding Davis writes for the
New York journal the following con
corning the New Mexico Volunteers;
Since Col. Wood was promoted to the
command OF a brigade Lieut.. Col ROOse-
welt has had complete control over the
regiment Of Rough Riders. He Is, In
consequence very happy, and the deyo-
ton OF his men 70 him Is something hne
10 see.
Roosevelt In the last fifteen years has
played many pa~rts-cOwbOy, big game
hunter, civil service commissioner, police
commissioner, assistant secretary OF the
navy and writer Of American history.
He Is now making American history, and
making II very we'll.
on Friday, when he was ordered 10
take his regiment into the open, he found
the regiment lying in the grass under a
heavy Gre. They we're being shot with.
out being allowed 10 make any return.
This did not seem good enough, and
Roosevelt led his regiment through their
lines and rode mp ahead Of his men TO
ward the blockhouse on the hill. The
younger officers and the cOlOred soldiers
OF the Tenth followed instantly,
No n who saw Roosevelt take that
ride expected he would finish IL alive. As
the only mounted man he was the most
conspicuous object In range OF the rifle
pits, then only 200 yards ahead.
IL looked like fOOlhardiness, but, NJ a
matter Of fact, he set the pace with his
horse and inspired the men TO follow. He
reached the blOckhouse with four troopers
before all the Spaniards had abandoned
II, and killed n OF them, who was still
firing, with his own revolver.
The charge was followed almost imme.
diately by another 10 the hill on the
right, which he occupied with 300 men,
the scattered fragments OF six dis
mounted cavalry regiments.
ONLY HALF LIFT.
The Rough Riders have remained In
this position ever since. When | saw
them yesterday only half Of the men were
left Of those with whom ! started from
Siboney ten days ago. Six Of the eight
troops have lost their captains; the rest
are commanded by second lieutenants
and seTgeants. But the spirit Of the men
was high, and they we're ~ cheerful and
content a. In the rocking-chair days at
Tampa.
sharpshooters and cowboys werepottlng
at Spanish guerrillas in the trees at the
rear = impassiyely AZ though they were
contestlng for badges in a rifle range.
One man-CorpOral Goodwin, OF Arizona
shot six. The other men were lying on
their backs watching him. Bullets were
passing over them continuously, and 10
close 20 the crest that they moved about
on their knees.
Woodbury. Kane, who il now first lieu
tenant OF X troop, showed me a spoonful
OF tobacco In the palm OF his hand and
begged the loan OF my pipe. This was his
last bOwlful Of tobacco and he accepted
the fact with the most unrunl d good
humor.
This regiment, when II was fret or
ganized, was criticised and ridiculed. IL
was compared TO the regiments OF Bow
cry boys and volunteer iremen who ran
away at Bull Kun. But the difference lay
In the fact that the personnel Of the men
OF this regiment Is somewhat higher than
that OF the men who rob drunken sailors
and administer knockout drops 20 the
c%ountrymen who 90 sightseeing on the
BOwery.
The Rough Riders, a they are now
universally called, have been In the two
hardest fights OF the war, and In the
front OF each. They have lost In killed
and wounded half their number, and be.
tween the western man and the eastern
man there Ia nothing TO be said OF either
except OF praise.