The Rough Riders · Character
Leonard Wood
The regiment's first colonel, a physician-soldier whose bureaucratic cunning and hunger for the front line got the Rough Riders armed, mounted, and shipped before anyone else.
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Also known as Colonel Wood, Wood, General Wood, Dr. Leonard Wood, Wood Colonel
First appearance: The Rough Riders
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Colonel of the Rough Riders; Roosevelt's superior and co-commander during the regiment's training and deployment.
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Wood is the organizer Roosevelt defers to: he knows the ground, understands that smokeless powder and regular-army carbines will decide whether the regiment fights or festers, and works the ordnance and quartermaster…
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- Key Rough Rider Leaders
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- The Rough Riders
- Raising the Regiment
- To Cuba
- General Young’s Fight at Las Guasimas
- IV: The Cavalry at Santiago
- Appendix A: Colonel Roosevelt’s Report to the Secretary of War of September 10th
- Appendix B: The "Round Robin" Letter
- Appendix D: Recommendations for the Medal of Honor
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