[Owing to the circumstances of the regiment's service, the paperwork
was very difficult to perform. This muster-out roll is very defective
in certain points, notably in the enumeration of the wounded who had
been able to return to duty. Some of the dead are also undoubtedly
passed over. Thus I have put in Race Smith, Sanders, and Tiffany as
dead, correcting the rolls; but there are doubtless a number of
similar corrections which should be made but have not been, as the
regiment is now scattered far and wide. I have also corrected the
record for the wounded men in one or two places where I happen to
remember it; but there are a number of the wounded, especially the
slightly wounded, who are not down at all.]
FIELD, STAFF, AND BAND COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT
TROOP A CAPTAIN FRANK FRANTZ
TROOP B CAPTAIN JAMES H. MCCLINTOCK
TROOP C CAPTAIN JOSEPH L. B. ALEXANDER
TROOP D CAPTAIN R. B. HUSTON
TROOP E CAPTAIN FREDERICK MULLER
TROOP F CAPTAIN MAXIMILIAN LUNA
TROOP G CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. H. LLEWELLEN
TROOP H CAPTAIN GEORGE CURRY
TROOP I CAPTAIN SCHUYLER A. MCGINNIS
TROOP K CAPTAIN WOODBURY KANE
TROOP L CAPTAIN RICHARD C. DAY
TROOP M CAPTAIN ROBERT H. BRUCE
As said above, this is not a complete list of the wounded, or even of
the dead, among the troopers. Moreover, a number of officers and men
died from fever soon after the regiment was mustered out. Twenty-eight
field and line officers landed in Cuba on June 22nd; ten of them were
killed or wounded during the nine days following. Of the five
regiments of regular cavalry in the division, one, the Tenth, lost
eleven officers; none of the others lost more than six. The loss of
the Rough Riders in enlisted men was heavier than that of any other
regiment in the cavalry division. Of the nine infantry regiments in
Kent's division, one, the Sixth, lost eleven officers; none of the
others as many as we did. None of the nine suffered as heavy a loss in
enlisted men, as they were not engaged at Las Guasimas.
No other regiment in the Spanish-American War suffered as heavy a loss
As the First United States Volunteer Cavalry.