America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . rth will more than make up for the loss of fightingstrength. Our men will carry carbines and revolvers—the Krag-Jorgensen carbine,a splendid weapon—and for use when they have shot away their ammunition,the machete, a much easier weapon to manage than the ordinary cavalrySWOrd—this last merely so that they shall not be defenseless in any is not the intention that they shall be swordsmen. They couldnt becomepro
America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . rth will more than make up for the loss of fightingstrength. Our men will carry carbines and revolvers—the Krag-Jorgensen carbine,a splendid weapon—and for use when they have shot away their ammunition,the machete, a much easier weapon to manage than the ordinary cavalrySWOrd—this last merely so that they shall not be defenseless in any is not the intention that they shall be swordsmen. They couldnt becomeproficient in that in six months probably. The gun and the pistol are their 142 AMERICAS WAR FOR HfMANITY weapons. They know how to handle them. The one thing we have to teachthem is not to shoot until their horses touch the enemy. That done, thefight is won. They wont need the sword. The mounted riflemen are the historic arm of the United States service,born of the peculiar conditions of fighting here. It was always a most use-ful organization. In the revolutionary war they came from out of thewestern mountains, riding sixty miles the last day, and smashed the British. ROUGH RIDERS PROM ARIZONA. (I-r under Colonel Ferguson. In the war of 1812 they beat Tecumseh and Briga-dier-General Proctor, and in the Mexican war they marched against andconquered New Mexico and Chihuahua. The frontiersmen were fearless and used to all the hardships of cam-paigning, so that their advance was not burdened with any hospital seven hundred and eighty that will make up our regiment are nowhastening to the rendezvous at San Antonio, Texas, from west and east. ROOSEVELTS ROUGH RIDERS. 143 The last of the recruits from Washington, over thirty in number, marchedin a body from Mr. Roosevelts office in the Navy Department to the were a stalwart body of men. Some wore broad-brimmed hats and hadthe bronzed cheek of the plains. Others looked like students and club men,but all evide
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