4 2 The Rough Riders 



tains, cooking in a lumber-camp, and serving as doc- 

 tor on an emigrant ship. 



Woodbury Kane was given a commission, and also 

 Horace Devereux, of Princeton. Kane was older 

 than the other college men who entered in the ranks ; 

 and as he had the same good qualities to start with, 

 this resulted in his ultimately becoming perhaps the 

 most useful soldier in the regiment. He escaped 

 wounds and serious sickness, and was able to serve 

 through every day of the regiment's existence. 



Two of the men made Second Lieutenants by 

 promotion from the ranks while in San Antonio 

 were John Greenway, a noted Yale football player 

 and catcher on her baseball nine, and David Good- 

 rich, for two years captain of the Harvard crew. 

 They were young men, Goodrich having only just 

 graduated; while Greenway, whose father had 

 served with honor in the Confederate Army, had 

 been out of Yale three or four years. They were 

 natural soldiers, and it would be wellnigh impossible 

 to overestimate the amount of good they did the 

 regiment. They were strapping fellows, entirely 

 fearless, modest, and quiet. Their only thought was 

 how to perfect themselves in their own duties, and 

 how to take care of the men under them, so as to 

 bring them to the highest point of soldierly per- 

 fection. I grew steadily to rely upon them, as men 

 who could be counted upon with absolute certainty, 



