114 years ago Today.

by mcassill, Sunday, July 01, 2012, 23:09 (4529 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

Initially Army Ordinance drug their feet on replacing the Krag. That changed when TR became President and took personal interest in the matter - not to mention wholesale cleaning out of the considerable deadwood in Army leadership.
People sometimes forget that there were two regiments charging up Kettle Hill that day. The other, the 10th Cavalry, United States Colored Troops, was at that point being led by a 37-year-old First Lieutenant named Pershing. (In that era serving in the Colored regiments was a career dead-end for most officers). After TR became President "Black Jack's" rise through the ranks was meteoric, and justly so.
Mark