40 The Rough Riders 



flannel shirts, brown trousers, leggings, and boots, 

 with handkerchiefs knotted loosely around their 

 necks, they looked exactly as a body of cowboy cav- 

 alry should look. The officers speedily grew to real- 

 ize that they must not be over-familiar with their 

 men, and yet that they must care for them in every 

 way. The men, in return, began to acquire those 

 habits of attention to soldierly detail which mean so 

 much in making a regiment. Above all, every man 

 felt, and had constantly instilled into him, a keen 

 pride of the regiment, and a resolute purpose to. do 

 his whole duty uncomplainingly, and, above all, 

 to win glory by the way he handled himself in 

 battle. 



