Cubans in the Confederacy: Jose Agustin Quintero, Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta VelazquezPhillip Thomas Tucker McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2002 M05 24 - 259 pages The role of Cubans in the American Civil War is seldom appreciated. This work is the first to provide a close look at the often distinguished services they performed. Although Cubans are recorded in the rosters of both Union and Confederate forces, Cuban ties with the Confederacy were particularly strong, partly because Cuban patriots fighting for liberation from Spain tended to identify with the Southern cause as a revolutionary struggle. This work will focus on the biographies of three Cubans who served the Confederate army in the War Between the States. Darryl E. Brock offers a detailed portrait of Jose Agustin Quintero, who served as the South's most effective diplomat. Michel Wendell Stevens writes on Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, who rose to the rank of colonel and served some of the Confederacy's best-known generals. Finally, Richard Hall provides an intimate sketch of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a soldier and spy for the Confederacy who infiltrated (as a double agent) the operations of Northern spymaster Lafayette C. Baker. |
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... Colonel Beverley Tucker had returned from Mexico after the collapse of the Confederate Carlotta colony , and found his dinner inter- rupted one evening by the angry bellowings of a Northern colonel , seated at a nearby table . Tucker ...
... Colonel Harris , as a replacement . In this case at least , with the President's concurrence , promotion seemed imminent . However , before the appointment , Colonel Harris succumbed to yellow fever , which was then killing about 20 ...
... Colonel Alfred Hartwell leading the now famous 54th Massachusetts and the 55th Massachusetts Colored Infantry , approached the Confederate positions to within canister range . As a result , casualties for troops and officers were severe ...