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Francisco Carrillo Morales Correspondence and Documents, September 9, 1895-[1899].

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Containers:
Box 1, Folders 6-10
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, despatches, and notes from Carrillo's command of 4th Corps, when he was based in wartime Cuba. Also includes correspondence from Carrillo's subordinates (from the 2nd and 3rd Brigades; the "Trinidad" Brigade; the "Sagua" Brigade; the "Cienfuegos" Brigade; and the 1st and 2nd Divisions); equals (from the 1st Corps); and superiors (the Western Military Department/Military Department of the West). Some information concerning American aid to both sides of the Cuban war, including claims made by Cosme de la Torriente that the Pinkerton Agency was supporting the Spanish government into the 1890s. Also includes non-military records. One example is a despatch from Rita Suárez del Villar, leader of the "Cubanita" women's patriotic club in Cienfuegos, to Carrillo concerning her attempt to sway American support and recruits, including a young man named Teodoro Culwell attached to Máximo Gómez's regiment. Another is from a member of the men's patriotic "Panchito Gómez" club, also of Cienfuegos, who was briefly visiting Remedios. Also includes an 1899 fiscal audit of the Sagua Brigade. Occidente, Spanish military, Cuban Liberation Army, Mambí, women, revolutionary women's clubs, revolutionary men's clubs, patriotic clubs, foreign support in the Cuban War of Independence, logistics, operations, guerrilla warfare, Spanish-American War, Cubans in New York, Cuban expatriates. Partial geographical list: Havana (Cuba), Remedios (Las Villas/Villa Clara/Santa Clara, Cuba), Trinidad (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba), Occidente (Cuba), Veracruz (Mexico?), Cienfuegos (Cuba).
Extent:
39 items [13 from 1896, 14 from 1897, and 12 from 1898-99]

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