The Roughest Riders. The Untold Story Of The Black Soldiers In The Spanish-American War

JEROME TUCCILLE

Publication: Chicago Review Press, 2015, Chicago

First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xxii, 282 pp., cast of main characters, prologue, illustrated from photographs, maps, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. The story of Teddy Roosevelt and the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry and the 24th Infantry, black regiments who fought at his side during this 1898 campaign. The author examines their participation in the Las Guasimas and Santiago campaigns, including the fighting associated with Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.