American military personnel of the Spanish-American War

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 227. Chapters: Theodore Roosevelt, Louis H. Carpenter, Smedley Butler, John J. Pershing, Billy Mitchell, Littleton Waller, George Dewey, List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Spanish¿American War, Walter Evans Edge, Rough Riders, Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, Edward C. Kalbfus, Joseph Wheeler, Leonidas C. Dyer, Edwin P. Morrow, Frederick J. Horne, Adelbert Ames, Joseph Taussig, Walter Krueger, Benjamin Franklin Tilley, Richard Henry Savage, Miller Reese Hutchison, Cordell Hull, John Bigelow, Jr., Damon Runyon, William D. Leahy, Henry Ware Lawton, Winfield Scott Schley, Henry Tureman Allen, John Henry Parker (general), Stanley H. Ford, Denver S. Dickerson, J. Franklin Bell, Cornelius C. Smith, John Jacob Astor IV, Samuel Whitside, Clarence Ransom Edwards, Daniel Van Voorhis, Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II, Dudley Newcomb Carpenter, Henry Ossian Flipper, Charles Dudley Rhodes, Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr., John Sprunt Hill, William Ledyard Rodgers, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., Jules Garesche Ord, Richardson Clover, Richard H. Jackson, D. John Markey, John Porter Merrell, Richard B. Paddock, Leonard Wood, Thomas C. Hart, Clement Flagler, William P. Cronan, Robert K. Evans, George Windle Read, Frederick Funston, Raymond P. Rodgers, Charles Heywood, Franklin J. Drake, Lawrence Tyson, Oswald Herbert Ernst, Frederick Rodgers, Alexander Oswald Brodie. Excerpt: Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( -z¿-velt; October 27, 1858 ¿ January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901¿1909). A Republican, he is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the first incarnation of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year. Roosevelt was also the first of only three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma and stayed at home studying natural history. To compensate for his physical weakness, he embraced a strenuous life. Home-schooled, he became an eager student of nature. He attended Harvard University, where he studied biology, boxed and developed an interest in naval affairs. In 1881, one year out of Harvard, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he became a leader of the reform faction of his Republican party (the "GOP"). His The Naval War of 1812 (1882) established his professional reputation as a serious historian; he wrote numerous books on hunting, the outdoors, and current political issues, as well as frontier history. In 1884, his wife and his mother died on the same day. He left politics and went to the frontier, becoming a rancher in the "Badlands" in the Dakotas. Returning to New York City, he ran for mayor in 1886, finishing third with 60,000 votes. He later gai