On the old  Comanche   Trail NW of San Antonio used  by US Cavalry Col   RE Lee  on travels  to well- protected  Fort Mason were the  small towns  of  Welfare  and Comfort. Now  is along US 87 all the way to N Montana  near  Canadian border.  In 1861 offered  command by  Lincoln, Lee resigned to serve his native   Country  Virgina  and there hangs  the tale.

In the  words  of a Cavalry  commander just  pre  WW1

Leadership Address by Maj C. A. Bach, Giving Farewell Instructions to the Graduating Student Officers of the Second Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1917

“I refer to the paternalism that manifests itself in a watchful care for the comfort and welfare of those in your charge.”

After 1865 Lee’s  war lost,  most  renown US  Cavalry   leader  was  Lt Col.  G.A.  Custer.  In 1973 I had a new Spangdahlem  Germany Air Base  Wing  CO fresh from  Viet  combat  who  was  fond  of  quoting  Custer  saying ” On officer sees to the    horses  first  then   take  cares of  welfare and comfort of the  soldiers. Got  so tiresome  I rose at a  formal Wing  Officer’s   Dining In and proposed a toast to my  1/16th   Native  American heritage   “Who took care of  Custer  his horses and his men!”. Our Col stopped the  repetitious  reference   after that.