[Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookTheodore Roosevelt CHAPTER VII 98/136
There were all kinds of funny incidents.
One of my men, an ex-cow-puncher and former round-up cook, a very good shot and rider, got into trouble on the way down on the transport. He understood entirely that he had to obey the officers of his own regiment, but, like so many volunteers, or at least like so many volunteers of my regiment, he did not understand that this obligation extended to officers of other regiments.
One of the regular officers on the transport ordered him to do something which he declined to do.
When the officer told him to consider himself under arrest, he responded by offering to fight him for a trifling consideration.
He was brought before a court martial which sentenced him to a year's imprisonment at hard labor with dishonorable discharge, and the major-general commanding the division approved the sentence. We were on the transport.
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