Evening star., 1927-08-21
ROUGH RIDER PLOT
RECALLS HEROES
Simple Marker Over Grave of
Gen. Wood Latest Reminder
of Heroic Deeds.

Rough. tough we're the stuff.
We want TO fight and we can't set
enough.
This battle cry of nearly so years
ago at Las Guasimas. San Juan and
Santiago today has an imperishahle
Arlington National Memorial Gene
terry. where lie 50 many of the heroic
adventurers who fought in the Cuban
campaign,
4 newly made grave, with a simple
wooden marker bearing the words
Leonard Wood. Maj. Gen. L. 5. A. F."
has Just been added to that historic
ground where the Rough Riders he
loved so we'll have their eternal repose.
Not far from this freshly turned
ground which just received the body
OF their beloved leader rise up head
stones with simple inscriptions-bare
~ more than the name of the soldier
beneath--and short distance remoV.
cd is the original mast or coming
tower Of the battleship Maine. Other
monuments denoting the service of
the men there buried are the shaft
erected by the Colonial Danes of
gave their lives in Cuba and the Rough
Rider monument, of simple dignity
inscribed with many of the illustrious
names of the fighting men who fol.
lowed Wood and Roosevelt.
Only n gallant 400 survive of the
thousand or more enrolled in the IA
nous regiment which added such glow
ing and romantic pages to the war
history of Americans in the days of
1898 Of these. some gathered at the
graveside of Gen. Wood the other day
10 pay their last earthly tribute. They
were not conspicuous. To Washing
ton and to Arlington they came and
went unnoticed. AS the body of their
dead leader was lowered into the grave
they turned to those other mounds
with reverent eyes and thoughts OF
their old comrades.
Two Memorials Mark Plot.
The Rough Rider plot is situated in
the heart of the vast acreage which
the burial ground includes. AS Nc
Pherson avenue, the main thorough
fare of the cemetery, winds past Far.
ragut avenue an imposing monument
to the Rough Riders denotes the sec
tion reserved for the Spanish-Ameri-
can war dead. 1t is in the shape of
a shield, with Mcpherson avenue az
the top side and Lawton avenue pro-
viding the boundary on the three re-.
manning sides. Just a short distance
removed in Sigsbee avenue. on which
the Maine mast is located.
Two memorials are included in the
area. one dedicated to the Rough Rid
ers alone and the other known as the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument of
the Spanish War. The National So
ciety of Colonial Danes of America
dedicated in the name of all the
women of the Nation ''in sorrow.
gratitude and pride" the shaft of mar
bic surmounted by ball. on which IS
perched n eagle, to the soldiers and
sailors who gave their lives to their
country in the war with Spain in
189S-99. The Rough Rider monument
bears the insignia of the 1st u. ).
Volunteer Cavalry and is inscribed
with the three historic engagements
at Las Guasimas, San Juan and San
tiaso, in which they SO gloriously par
ticipated. The memorial was erected
by members and friends of the regi-
ment in memory of the deceased
troopers and officers.
Near Simpsons Grave.
Gen. Wood and Rear Admiral Will
Ham Thomas Sampson are the only
general officers who served in the
Spanish War who are buried within
the Rough Rider plot. Generals Law
ton. Wheeler and Young repose in the
older part Of the cemetery, as do the
bodies Of Admirals Schley and Sigsbee.
The Sampson headstone, fanks the
grave of Gen. Wood. on the easterly
side of the plot
Widely diversified in social status,
but united brothers in a glorious ad-
venture, Theodore Roosevelt gave this
brief summing up of the organization
In his book, 'The Rough Riders"
In less than 60 days the regiment
had been raised, organized. armed
equipped, drilled. mounted, dismount.
ed. kept for a fortnight on transports
and put through two victorious ag-
gressive fights in very difficult coun
try, the loss in killed and wounded
amounting to a quarter of those en-
gagged. This is record which is not
easy to match in the history of volun
teer organizations. The loss was bur
small compared to that which befeil
hundreds of regiments in some of the
grea. battles of the later years of the
civil War. but it may be doubted
whether there was any regiment
which made such a record during the
hrst months of any of our wars"