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companies which were proffered to us from the 

 various States. The only organized bodies we were 

 at liberty to accept were those from the four Terri- 

 tories. But owing to the fact that the number of 

 men orginally allotted to us, 780, was speedily raised 

 to 1,000, we were given a chance to accept quite a 

 number of eager volunteers who did not come from 

 the Territories, but who possessed precisely the 

 same temper that distinguished our Southwestern 

 recruits, and whose presence materially benefited 

 the regiment. 



We drew recruits from Harvard, Yale, Prince- 

 ton, and many another college; from clubs like the 

 Somerset, of Boston, and Knickerbocker, of New 

 York; and from among the men who belonged 

 neither to club nor to college, but in whose veins the 

 blood stirred with the same impulse which once sent 

 the Vikings over sea. Four of the policemen who 

 had served under me, while I was President of the 

 New York Police Board, insisted on coming two 

 of them to die, the other two to return unhurt after 

 honorable and dangerous service. It seemed to me 

 that almost every friend I had in every State had 

 some one acquaintance who was bound to go with 

 the Rough Riders, and for whom I had to make a 

 place. Thomas Nelson Page, General Fitzhugh Lee, 

 Congressman Odell of New York, Senator Morgan ; 

 for each of these, and for many others, I eventually 



