Rough Rider Experience in The Spanish-American War
McClintock was an employee in the adjutant general's office at Whipple Barracks in 1886-7 at the time of the Geronimo campaign. For a long period he was the Arizona member of the national irrigation congress executive committee, also acting as secretary for the congress. In April, 1898, while conducting a news bureau at Phoenix, he assisted Colonel Alexander 0. Brodie and Captain William O. O'Neill in enrolling a cavalry regiment for the Spanish-American war. Only two troops, two hundred and fifteen men, were accepted. Along with former Assistant Secretary of the US Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Brodie had become one of the squadron/battalion commanders of the regiment and was promoted to major, with - McClintock as "B" Troop commander and O'Neill as "A" Troop commander, these two men were appointed captains in the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, otherwise known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Captain McClintock would later be given the brevet of major, for gallantry in action. He was seriously wounded on the 24th Of June, 1898, at Guasimas, Cuba, with three machine gun bullets striking him in the leg. B Troop 1st Lieutenant, George B. Wilcox assumed command of the troop and McClintock was evacuated down to the beach at Siboney, and sent back to the United States and transported up to the hospital at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. Because of his serious wounds, he did not take part in the more famous Battle of San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898. It would not be until Thanksgiving Day that he was discharged from the hospital at Fort Wadsworth. He was carried on the roles of the Rough Riders until their disbandment.
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