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not only in every emergency, but in all routine work. 

 They were never so tired as not to respond with 

 eagerness to the slightest suggestion of doing some- 

 thing new, whether it was dangerous or merely 

 difficult and laborious. They not merely did their 

 duty, but were always on the watch to find out some 

 new duty which they could construe to be theirs. 

 Whether it was policing camp, or keeping guard, or 

 preventing straggling on the march, or procuring 

 food for the men, or seeing that they took care of 

 themselves in camp, or performing some feat of un- 

 usual hazard in the fight no call was ever made 

 upon them to which they did not respond with eager 

 thankfulness for being given the chance to answer 

 it. Later on I worked them as hard as I knew how, 

 and the regiment will always be their debtor. 



Green way was from Arkansas. We could have 

 filled up the whole regiment many times over from 

 the South Atlantic and Gulf States alone, but were 

 only able to accept a very few applicants. One of 

 them was John Mcllhenny, of Louisiana; a planter 

 and manufacturer, a big-game hunter and book- 

 lover, who could have had a commission in the 

 Louisiana troops, but who preferred to go as a 

 trooper in the Rough Riders because he believed we 

 would surely see fighting. He could have com- 

 manded any influence, social or political, he wished ; 

 but he never asked a favor of any kind. He went 



