In the great majority of cases each man was chiefly anxious to find out what he should do to make the regiment a success.

They bought, first and last, about 800 copies of the cavalry drill regulations and studied them industriously.

Such men were practically soldiers to start with, in all the essentials.

It is small wonder that with them as material to work upon the regiment was raised, armed, equipped, drilled, sent on trains to Tampa, embarked, disembarked, and put through two victorious offensive--not defensive--fights in which a third of the officers and one-fifth of the men were killed or wounded, all within sixty days.

It is a good record, and it speaks well for the men of the regiment; and it speaks well for Wood.[*] [*] To counterbalance the newspapers which ignorantly and indiscriminately praised all the volunteers there were others whose blame was of the same intelligent quality.