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The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat. The United States Army was small, understaffed, and disorganized in comparison to its status during the American Civil War roughly thirty years prior.
While the Rough Rider's troopers carried the Krag, each Rough Rider officer was equipped with a .30 Army caliber M1895 Winchester lever-action rifle, courtesy of Col. Roosevelt. However, U.S. 3.2-inch artillery pieces were of an outmoded design, with a slow rate of fire due to bag powder charges and lack of a recoil mechanism. [ 7 ]
On July 1, 1898, at about 10am, the Rough Riders and the 10th Cavalry were stationed below Kettle Hill. The Spaniards, who were on top of the hill, poured Mauser rifle fire down on the Americans. Buckey O'Neill was killed in action. Theodore Roosevelt, commander of the Rough Riders, wrote about the death of O'Neill:
Rough Riders from A Troop on the far right linked up with their regular counterparts and helped them seize the Spanish positions on the long finger-like hill to the right of the right road, with both Rough Riders and Regulars meeting at the base of the finger-like hill. By this time it was approximately 9:30.
22nd (Rough Riders) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry 23rd (3rd Sharpshooters) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry 24th (Metropolitan Mounted Rifles) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry
• Teddy Roosevelt – Named after the 26th president of the United States, and, notably, the leader of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry; known as the "Rough Riders". This category uses a rifle-caliber lever-action rifle chambered in cartridges such as 30–30 Winchester and 45-70.
Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders, a dismounted volunteer cavalry regiment that fought in Cuba, also deployed two M1895 Colt machine guns in 7×57mm Mauser caliber (built for export, both guns were privately purchased for the Rough Riders by family members of the troops [18]), but although they did cause some Spanish casualties were reportedly ...
The 3rd Cavalry Regiment, formerly 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment ("Brave Rifles") [2] is a regiment of the United States Army currently stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas.. The regiment has a history in the United States Army that dates back to 19 May 1846, when it was constituted in the Regular Army as the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.