During time of war, special volunteer groups have always captured the fancy of the American public, often to the chagrin of regular military units, who saw them as undisciplined. They also became the idols of the press. No group of volunteers has ever matched Teddy Roosevelt’s hell-bent-for-leather horse cavalry, known as the Rough Riders.
It was the end of an era for the Am
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