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and I felt precisely alike ; for to fight in such a cause 

 and with such an enemy was merely to carry out 

 the doctrines we had both of us preached for many 

 years. Senator Davis, Senator Proctor, Senator 

 Foraker, Senator Chandler, Senator Morgan, Sena- 

 tor Frye, and a number of others also took just the 

 right ground; and I saw a great deal of them, as 

 well as of many members of the House, particularly 

 those from the West, where the feeling for war was 

 strongest. 



Naval officers came and went, and Senators were 

 only in the city while the Senate was in session ; but 

 there was one friend who was steadily in Washing- 

 ton. This was an army surgeon, Dr. Leonard 

 Wood. I only met him after I entered the navy 

 department, but we soon found that we had kindred 

 tastes and kindred principles. He had served in 

 General Miles's inconceivably harassing campaigns 

 against the Apaches, where he had displayed such 

 courage that he won that most coveted of distinc- 

 tions the Medal of Honor ; such extraordinary 

 physical strength and endurance that he grew to be 

 recognized as one of the two or three white men 

 who could stand fatigue and hardship as well as an 

 Apache; and such judgment that toward the close 

 of the campaigns he was given, though a surgeon, 

 the actual command of more than one expedition 

 against the bands of renegade Indians. Like so 



