2 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Lewis Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney was born in Marshall, Virginia. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1883, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and boxing teams. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Ninth Cavalry Regiment in 1885. Dabney was assigned to the frontier in Texas in 1888 and later to Texas, Oklahoma, and Montana
In 1896 he joined Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. For his part in this battle he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After the war he served as an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt during his trip to Africa.