The age-herald., 1900-06-25
ROUGH RIDERS
 TACTICS TAUGHT Permanent Camp Has Been ts- tabIiShed in Colorado, CALL FOR 300 YOUNG MEN Made a Feature of the Military Depart ment of the Government by an Amendment to the Voun-
 teer Army Bill
CALL FOR 800 YOUNG MEN

campment, the secretary was ordered to issue a call for 800 more young men, prefer ably college men, athletes or men familiar with the use of revolver and rifle Ten medical students will also be accepted, who will be attached to the mounted Red Cross training station. The call also includes 50 graduated civil engineering students, who will receive practical training in everything pertaining to field operations bridge and siege construction, etc. As the encamp- ment is a permanent one, eligible young men may enlist at any time for periods of three, six, nine months or one year.
 The course of instruction includes rough riding, sharpshooting and military tactics, training of the horse, target practice with rifle and revolver, fencing, mounted and dismounted; military gymnastics, practice for the trooper, troop and squadron; prac- tical instruction in crossing streams Far rows land-taught system of swimming, practical and theoretical instruction In mil itary signalling laying out temporary field shelter, practical instruction in field telegraphy night signalling and the use of the heliograph, instruction in wireless teitBIdphy, pTdCllCdl llStIuStioh III "AN nance, practical instruction in the protec- tion and care of the wounded on the bat tlefeld, special attention to cavalry drill and regulations and rough riding tactics, including transportation and packing; prac- tical instruction in scouting, with such oth- CT instructions as may be inaugurated from time to time.
 Improvement the Watchword
 In the matter of tentage and equipment 1t will be sought to exhibit many improve ments over what is officially endorsed and used at this time. If the war department will open its eyes, it may see some of its mistakes. Our drills will tend to individual marksmanship and open-order firing. Par ticular stress win be laid on the useless ness of bayonet charges. The men and their horses will be trained together. Jumping and mountain climbing play most impor- tant roles. The school of the trooper will be followed by charges and putting the horses over hurdles, fences, hedges, ditches, and water. Every horse will be taught to lie down at command.
 The National Rough Rider Military En- campment is the outgrowth of ideas crys- tallized by the late war with Spain, and Is an institution made useful if not necessa- ry, by the great changes in military tactics which the last ten years have recorded At the time of the breaking out of the Civil War roughriding was unknown in any of the armies of the world. In every army there were bodies of cavalry, and they were rule unwieldy and immobile forces, and maintained in many cases more as an ornament than for use. They were of course at times useful, when 1t was de- sired to hurl a great force in mass at the enemy, but the brunt of fighting was done by the infantry which was considered the real force of war, and that consequently to which the greater attention in develop ment should be paid.
 It was the Confederate cavalry which first showed to military men and to the world generally that in the rough-riding reposed a force in which there were i'm mense possibilities of development. The awakening came one morning, when Gen cral Stuart, with small body of Rough Riders, swooped down upon the Union army. 100000 strong, encamped in front of 2ichmond, broke down the Federal out post, drove its reserve, a squadron of cav airy, into camp, and after infiicting much damage upon the Union camp, left it de- moralized and rubbing its eyes in astonish- ment and chagrin, and having filled their haversacks with government rations, were out of reach before pursuit could be made
 Authorized by Secretary of War
 On April 2S, 1898, the Secretary of War authorized the recruiting of three regi- ments of cavalry to be composed of from tiersmen, who have the special qualiflca- tions of horsemen and marksmen"-one by Captain now GeneraD Leonard Wood Succeeded by Colonel Theodore Roose- velD; another by Colonel Jay L. Torrey, the originator of the Rough Rider idea. and the third by Colonel Melvin Grigsby
 The Rough-Rider idea was remarkable in at least two respects-the applause it re- ceived from the people and the sturdy character of the men who composed the three regiments. Since their return many of them have been nominated for office but it is not yet recorded that single one has been defeated by the votes of the plain people,
 Senator Warren of Wyoming took charge of the Legislation which made possible the organization of the Rough Riders. The Rough Rider idea, the Senator says was laid before him by Colonel Torrey, one of the most prominent and best-known stock men in his part of the country, who had had a large experience with frontiersmen. At Colonel Torrey's request they went to the President, the Secretary of War and the general commanding the army, early in March, and told them of the Western men who were fine horsemen and good marks men, but who, in the ordinary course, would not be given an opportunity for ser vice under the proposed law. In view of the encouragement given by President Mo I<inley, Secretary Alger and General Miles, Senator Warren introduced bill in the Senate providing for the organization of such a force. The volunteer army bill reached the Senate before the Rough Rider bill was passed, and Senator Warren pro- cured an amendment to 1t under which the three regiments were subsequently, organ ized.
 The Board of Governors of the National Rough Rider Military Enoampment are