Leonard Wood who went to Cuba as a Colonel commanding the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders), was promoted to Brigadier General and commanded the 2nd Brigade's Cavalry Division for the remainder of the War in Cuba. He was the Military Governor of Santiago and then the Military Governor of Cuba and later the Philippines. Wood had won the Medal of Honor in the American Indian Wars where he served as a Cavalry Medical Doctor. He went on to become the Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
Generals Nelson A. Miles and William R. Shafter.
John Pershing
Theodore Roosevelt.
Consisted of the Cavalry.
Bernardo de Galvez
The Rough Riders were commanded by Theodore Roosevelt.
President William McKinley was the President during the Spanish American War. Theodore Roosevelt actually served in the military during the war.
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Both the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments served in the Spanish American War.
Nelson A. Miles
The 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.
In the Spanish American War of 1898, Roosevelt started as a Lieutenant Colonel, Executive Officer of the "Rough Riders". He eventually became Colonel, Commanding the Regiment.
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there was no spanish american war.
Theodore Roosevelt.
They were a dismounted Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.
Less than one year. He was executive officer (later commander) of the famous "Rough Riders". It was officially the 1st Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, formed for the Spanish American War.
The Rough Riders was the name given to the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry that fought in the Spanish-American War.
Theodore Roosevelt.