The First Maine, Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, Sixteenth Pennsylvania cavalry and two squadrons of the Tenth New-York, were the forces engaged. There is no discount on their bravery, and eulogy ...

Roosevelt, who had once said, "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one", left Washington and joined Colonel Leonard Wood's First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, also known as ...

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