The other twenty-four were regular regiments.

The percentage of loss of our regiment was about seven times as great as that of the other five volunteer regiments.

Of the twenty-four regular regiments, twenty-two suffered a smaller percentage of loss than we suffered.
Two, the Sixth United States Infantry and the Thirteenth United States Infantry, suffered a slightly greater percentage of loss--twenty-six per cent and twenty-three per cent as against twenty-two per cent.
NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT To be Colonel by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, First Volunteer Cavalry, for gallantry in battle, Las Guasima, Cuba, June 24, 1898.
To be Brigadier-General by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, First Volunteer Cavalry, for gallantry in battle, Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898.

(Nominated for brevet colonel, to rank from June 24, 1898.) FORT SAN JUAN, CUBA, July 17, 1898.
THE ADJUTANT-GENERAL UNITED STATES ARMY, Washington, D.C.( Through military channels) SIR: I have the honor to invite attention to the following list of officers and enlisted men who specially distinguished themselves in the action at Las Guasimas, Cuba, June 24, 1898.
These officers and men have been recommended for favorable consideration by their immediate commanding officers in their respective reports, and I would respectfully urge that favorable action be taken.
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