Troops on the march, Spanish ... war became inexorable despite Spain's attempts to negotiate a face-saving withdrawal from Cuba. Although the victory of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders at ...

Meanwhile, troops stationed away from the fighting also faced danger. When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States.

According to Deseret News accounts, “there were the Rough Riders, veterans of the Spanish American War, who came to see their old commander, Theodore Roosevelt, as he spoke at the City-County ...