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The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century.
When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men, spread around the countryhardly an army at all. In desperation, the Rough Riders were born. A unique group of volunteers, ranging from Ivy League athletes to Arizona cowboys and led by Theodore Roosevelt, they helped secure victory in Cuba in a series of gripping, bloody fights across the island. Roosevelt called their charge in the Battle of San Juan Hill his crowded houra turning point in his life, one that led directly to the White House. The instant I received the order, wrote Roosevelt, I sprang on my horse and then my crowded hour began. AsThe Crowded Hourreveals, it was a turning point for America as well, uniting the country and ushering in a new era of global power.
Both a portrait of these men, few of whom were traditional soldiers, and of the Spanish-American War itself,The Crowded Hourdives deep into the daily lives and struggles of Roosevelt and his regiment. Using diaries, letters, and memoirs, Risen illuminates a disproportionately influential moment in American history: a war of only six months time that dramatically altered the United States standing in the world. In this brilliant, enlightening narrative, the Rough Ridersand a country on the brink of a new global dominanceare brought fully and gloriously to life.

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To My Mother THE COMPOSITION OF THE FIFTH CORPS UNITED STATES ARMY Maj - photo 1

To My Mother

THE COMPOSITION OF THE FIFTH CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY

Maj. Gen. William R. Shafter, commanding

1st Division, Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Kent

1st Brigade, Brig. Gen. Hamilton S. Hawkins

6th U.S. Infantry

16th U.S. Infantry

71st New York Volunteer Infantry

2nd Brigade, Col. Edward P. Pearson

3rd U.S. Infantry

10th U.S. Infantry

21st U.S. Infantry

3rd Brigade, Col. Charles A. Wikoff

9th U.S. Infantry

13th U.S. Infantry

24th U.S. Infantry

2nd Division, Brig. Gen. Henry W. Lawton

1st Brigade, Brig. Gen. William Ludlow

8th U.S. Infantry

22nd U.S. Infantry

2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

2nd Brigade, Col. Evan Miles

1st U.S. Infantry

4th U.S. Infantry

25th U.S. Infantry

3rd Brigade, Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee

7th U.S. Infantry

12th U.S. Infantry

17th U.S. Infantry

Cavalry Division, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler

1st Brigade, Brig. Gen. Samuel S. Sumner

3rd U.S. Cavalry

6th U.S. Cavalry

9th U.S. Cavalry

2nd Brigade, Brig. Gen. Samuel B. M. Young

1st U.S. Cavalry

10th U.S. Cavalry

1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry (the Rough Riders)

Troops A, C, D, and F of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment

Artillery Battalion

Independent Brigade (part of Fourth Army Corps, attached to Fifth Corps)

3rd U.S. Infantry

20th U.S. Infantry

Signal Corps

Siege Train

Hospital Corps

Engineers Battalion

Gatling Gun Detachment (13th U.S. Infantry)

Source: Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902).

The Route of the Fifth Corps from Tampa to Cuba June 1898 Erin Greb - photo 2

The Route of the Fifth Corps from Tampa to Cuba, June 1898

Erin Greb Cartography

The Santiago Campaign JuneJuly 1898 Erin Greb Cartography INTRODUCTION - photo 3

The Santiago Campaign, JuneJuly 1898

Erin Greb Cartography

INTRODUCTION
NEW YORK CITY, 1899

I t was the grandest parade New York City had ever seen. It began with the ships243 of them, battleships, cruisers, torpedo boats, armored yachts, practically every ship in the American Navy, alongside dozens of private craft, carrying 150,000 sailors and passengers, gathered in the early evening of September 29, 1899, off the eastern coast of Staten Island, to celebrate the American victory in the Spanish-American War a year before. As fireworks ripped into the sky from scores of sites around New York Harbor, the fleet sailed forth, cruising through the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island. Under the glare of red, white, and blue starbursts, three and a half million peopletwo and a half million New Yorkers and another million visitors, who came from as far as Californiawatched along the harbor shorelines. To accompany the fireworks, the fleet beamed hundreds of spotlights on the crowds and buildings along the waterfront. Wherever the eye turned, it was blinded by the magic light... and all the cities seemed to be bathed in harmless fire, wrote one observer. For two hours this went on, and there was more to come: The next day 30,000 soldiers, led by a 130-piece band conducted by John Philip Sousa, marched from Morningside Heights to Madison Square, in Manhattan, where artisans had erected a triumphal arch of lath and plaster, modeled on the Arch of Titus in Rome.

In just a few months in 1898, the United States had defeated Spain and captured Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; in a separate move, it had annexed the Hawaiian islands. The United States and Spain had signed a peace treaty at the end of the year, but it took nine more months to coordinate a celebration with so many men, and so many ships, some deployed halfway around the world, to meet in

Riding that day at the head of the New York State National Guard as it marched along the parade route was Theodore Rooseveltnaturalist, historian, war hero, and now governor of New York. Dressed in a frock coat, top hat, and kid gloves, he was the most powerful politician of this mighty state and a scion of the citys patrician class. But he was more than that: Perhaps no single person better embodied the excitement and national pride the war elicited, and the newfound martial fervor that followed. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, he had resigned from his job with the Department of the Navy to help lead the First United States Volunteer Cavalrybetter known as the Rough Ridersduring the invasion of Cuba. Roosevelt had trained the regiment, one of twenty-six in the invasion force and totaling nearly 1,000 men, then led them to Cuba and into battle, culminating in a desperate, riotous charge up a hill outside the city of Santiago, on the islands southeastern coast. He returned victorious and world-famous, an American Caesar who took Albany a few months after taking Santiago and now, everyone said, was poised to take the presidency, too. Though the parades official man of honor was Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, who had defeated the Spanish Pacific fleet at Manila at the outbreak of the war, it was Roosevelt whom many in the crowd wanted to see that day. Halfway through the march, at 72nd Street, he paused to tip his hat to a reviewing stand. The crowd exploded, shouting Teddy! Teddy! and Roosevelt for president! Onlookers, trying to get close, pushed into the street; police had to hold them back. Aside from Dewey, the Times wrote, the interest and admiration of the thronging people were expressed more uniformly and enthusiastically toward Governor Roosevelt than toward any one else.

Roosevelts experience as a wartime leader raised his national profile and changed him utterly. Until then, his career had included politics, ranching, history writing, and biology; he was good at most of

Instead, he blossomed as a leader. He trained and led his men into battle, then watched over them during a grueling three-week siege outside Santiago, in which the bigger enemies, more so than the Spanish, were heat, disease, rats, and rainstorms. He kept his men in line, and he kept them loyalyears later, when Roosevelt was president, groups of Rough Riders would stop by the White House for a visit, and they were always allowed to skip past the crowd outside his office. It was these skills, as much as his charisma and unending appetite for work, that made Roosevelt such an effective public executiveas governor and, in 1901, as president.

Roosevelt blossomed intellectually as well. The experience with the Rough Riders, and his time at war, helped him hone his ideas about America, its place in the world, and his philosophy of the strenuous life that governed his approach to the presidency. It helped him clarify his complicated and flawed ideas about American unityhe embraced the notion of a country brought together by common values and a mission to bring those values to the world, even as he endorsed its exclusion of a large swath of its population behind disenfranchisement and Jim Crow. Roosevelts time in Cuba also brought home for him the importance of what his generation called the manly virtuesthe social Darwinian notions of competition, often violent, between men, and between nations. He did not discover these ideas on the battlefield, but the battlefield offered all the evidence he needed of their veracity, as well as the prestige to spread them among his adoring public. He became, wrote the historian Gail Bederman, a walking advertisement for the imperialistic manhood he desired for the American race.

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