Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to help raise the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, a mix of cowboys, miners and college athletes. His account covers their training in Texas, the chaotic voyage to Cuba, the fight at Las Guasimas, the charge on the heights at Santiago, the weeks in the trenches amid fever, and the return home.
A brisk first-person war story by a future president, essential for understanding the Spanish-American War and Roosevelt himself. Download the free EPUB.