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Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Bullard.—Service in the
Philippines in posts from regimental commander to provincial
governor, 1899-1904. With Wood on Sulu, 1902-3.
Major Jefferson R. Kean.—Medical Department. Associated
with Gorgas, Carroll, and Lazear on the Yellow Fever Com
mission. "Succeeded Greble as superintendent of hospitals
and charities; excellent man in any kind of duty." Cuba,
1898-1902.
Major Herbert J. Slocum.—Adviser, Rural Guard. Cuba,
1899-1902.
Major Frederick S. Foltz.—Provost marshal of Havana.
Chief, Cuban secret service. Captain of the Port of Havana.
Cuba, 1899-1902.
Major Francis J. Kernan.—Military government in Cuba,
- Aide to General Arthur MacArthur, Military Governor
and Commanding General, Department of the Philippines,
1900-1902.
Captain George W. Read.—Military government in the
Philippines, 1900-1902.
Captain James A. Ryan.—Provost marshal and provost judge
in the Philippines, 1900-1903.
Leonard Wood's influence in the Second Intervention was
present from the start. Steinhart played a crucial role in
Havana, and McCoy and Ladd were the military advisers
in the Taft-Bacon Mission. Wood himself wanted to return
to Cuba; when Roosevelt turned down his request, he was
comforted by the thought that so many of his old comrades
had returned to Havana.^25 Steinhart, in particular, was to have
a major influence on Magoon, for he became the Governor's
principal adviser on Cuban politics. Steinhart, McCoy wrote
Wood, "has done you credit. He has your administration and
policy always in his mind's eye."^26
How did the veterans of Wood's regime react to Magoon's
charitable treatment of the Cuban politicos? They could not
