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Includes correspondence, missives, orders, and miscellaneous notes concerning American involvement in the abortive López Expedition of 1851 and its aftermath, in which the Spanish South American defector Narciso López attempted to mount a military filibuster to remove Cuba from Spanish control and bring it into the United States as a slave state. These materials include some materials of Americans before the raid, expressing hopes that an American slave state of Cuba could offset the admission of California as a free state, as well as a military order by U.S. Naval Secretary William A. Graham to send the steamer John Hancock to New Orleans to prevent support to the López Expedition in the wake of its failure. Spanish royal orders to destroy the Filibuster, as well as indications of its subsequent flight to Nicaragua, are also included. Also in this file is a copy of a death certificate for Cuban-American Pedro Ángel Castellón signed by Severín LaTorre, Spanish consul to New Orleans, and verified in 1867. The folder includes a military promotion request for Leopoldo García Gardó signed by Antonio Venenc y Andrada in Segovia, Spain. The relationship of the latter two items with the other filibuster material is unclear. Partial geographical list: New York City, Havana/Habana (Cuba), Matanzas (Cuba), London (England), Tampa (Fla.), Key West, Jackson (Miss.), Augusta (Miss.), New Orleans (La.), Centreville (La.), Cheshire (Mass.), St. Augustine (Fla.), Madrid (Spain), Segovia (Spain). Additional keywords: Seminole War, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, California, Slavery, Caribbean, Georgia, Navy Department, Queen Isabella/Isabela II, U.S.-Spain relations, Spanish Army.

Includes correspondence, orders, and notes concerning the outfitting of vessels from American ports to support Cuban independence fighters in the Ten Years' War. The Virginius, referred to in a note from a U.S. court clerk in the West District of Wisconsin to the Adjutant-General declaring the preparedness of a local sharpshooter regiment to fight in the event of a war with Spain after the Virginius affair, was such a vessel. Included in this file is a note from U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish to the postmaster-general urging the rapid transmission of orders between New Orleans and Key West. Also includes an exemption order for a Spanish soldier signed by several superior officers including Don Victoriano Gómez. Smuggling, arms shipments, military exemptions. Partial geographical list: Havana/Habana (Cuba), Portland (Maine), New York City, Washington (D.C.), Madison (Wis.), New Orleans (La.), Key West, Madrid (Spain).

Includes correspondences and missives sent by Máximo Gómez, who coordinated contacts between the Cuban government in exile in New York (including recruiting volunteers) and the Cuban Liberation Army, to colleagues (particularly Francisco Carrillo), initially from exile in the British West Indies and then from Cuba (particularly in Western Cuba, as far east as the region of Sancti Spíritus). Gómez frequently expressed frustration to Carrillo over the logistical, tactical, and disciplinary situation of Cuban troops and the relative discipline and strength of Spanish forces. Also includes Gómez's eulogy for General Calixto García, who died of presumed pneumonia in December 1898. Spanish-American War, Maine explosion, promotions. Partial geographical list: Turks Islands, Jamaica, Havana/Habana (Cuba), Sancti Spíritus, Los Charcos.

Includes correspondence from Antonio Maceo concerning the logistical situation in eastern Cuba in 1895 from José Maceo on the question of dealing with deserters from the Spanish Army; and from Pedro Díaz Molina (the only formerly enslaved man to become elevated to Major-General in the Cuban Liberation Army) to Major-General Serafín Sánchez of the 4th Corps, 1st Division, 2nd Brigade concerning logistical reinforcements arriving from Francisco Carrillo's forces. 1895 War, slavery, deserters, courts-martial, military personnel. Partial geographical list: Oriente/Eastern State (Cuba).

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).

Includes documents concerning the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which was at that time and under Palma's direction decamping from its exile in New York, as well as notes of gratitude by Palma sent to American functionaries and veterans of the war in English, and correspondence concerning finances between Palma and James McDermott of Philadelphia. Palma makes reference to the increasing tensions between the U.S. and Cuba concerning the extent of Cuban sovereignty. Two empty envelopes addressed to McDermott, and an 1896 pro-independence pamphlet out of New York (in Spanish) entitled La Invasion de Occidente, or "The Invasion of Western Cuba," detailing Spanish military movements from 1895-96, and written by Palma, are present. Cuban-American Legion of Honor, Spanish-American War, U.S.-Cuba relations, Puerto Rico. Partial geographical list: Havana/Habana (Cuba), New York, Washington (D.C.), Philadelphia (Pa.).