During time of war Americans have always displayed a fondness for volunteer regiments. Teddy Roosevelt’s storied Rough Riders comes to mind but perhaps the most heralded of them all was Colonel Alexander Doniphan's First Missouri Mounted Volunteers during the War with Mexico. Those backwoods boys were mostly unruly, unshaven, unwashed, unchurched; couldn't march; didn't wear uniforms; didn't stand on ceremony and were totally undisciplined. But were as full of fight as a gunny sack full of w
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