This unit included five-time US national tennis champ Robert Wrenn but turned down Edgar Rice Burroughs as a volunteer.
This unit included five-time US national tennis champ Robert Wrenn but turned down Edgar Rice Burroughs as a volunteer. This outfit's first fighting came as part of a division commanded by General Joe Wheeler against forces led by Antero Rubin; this unit lost eight men at that battle of Las Guisimas. Their original commander, Colonel Leonard Wood, was transferred before their best-known engagement, where this unit helped take Kettle Hill in an assault on San Juan Heights. FTP name this volunteer cavalry regiment which featured leadership from Theodore Roosevelt.
This unit included five-time US national tennis champ Robert Wrenn but turned down Edgar Rice Burroughs as a volunteer.
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