Excerpt from Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 25: January, 1899 Rough Riders. At first we fought against the use of the term, but to no purpose; and when finally the Generals of Division and Brigade be gan to write in formal communications about our regiment as the Rough Riders, we adopted the term ourselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.