Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

Includes miscellaneous files and documents pertaining to the Cuban War of Independence, including operational and logistical notes issued within the 4th Corps of the Cuban Revolutionary Army, promotion papers issued to Pedro Silva and Fabian Fagerman, a call for war bonds to assist the Cuban Revolutionary Army and the Cuban Revolutionary Party, and correspondence concerning the death of José Maceo (at the Battle of San Pedro), whose medic, the Cuban-American Máximo Zertucha, was cleared of wrongdoing. Includes letters received by James McDermott in Philadelphia. Also includes a war bond for 25 (Mexican) pesos issued by the Cuban Revolutionary Club "Yucatán and Cuba Branch" towards the purchase of a cannon; and a pension receipt of 13 pesos (of unknown currency--the document is from Florida) given to Clementina de Vega for weekly expenses. Also includes a letter from May 1898 signed by Bartolomé Maso, the head of the Cuban Governmental Council, to U.S. President McKinley concerning Maso's appointment of Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui as Cuban Head of Business Affairs. Includes military rank identification papers for "Jhon" Caldwell, José Francisco Lamas, and Silverio Fraola in the Cuban Revolutionary Army. Includes a poem by a Chicagoan dedicated to Máximo Gómez. Several documents indicate shifts in strategy following Gen. Calixto García's death in December 1898. Military Department of the East, Eastern Military Department, military financing, Cuban Revolutionary Party, Cuban Revolutionary Army, Cuban Revolutionary clubs, revolutionary men's clubs, patriotic clubs, William McKinley, logistics, operations, guerrilla warfare, Cuban-American relations, Calixto García, Cuban-Mexican relations, poetry. Partial geographical list: Havana/Habana (Cuba), Key West (Cayo Hueso), San Pedro (Cuba), Oriente (Cuba), Kingston (Jamaica), Mérida (Yucatán, Mexico), Philadelphia (Pa.), New York, Chicago (Ill.), Washington (D.C.), Norwich (Conn.).