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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... attack with heavy casualties including Shaw.148 The losses from the open attack across the beach into the face of the Confederate guns led to the Federal decision to begin a siege action that included exten- sive , time - consuming ...
... attack aimed at both ends of James Island and on Johns Island against the depleted defend- ers . The success on the southern end of James Island encouraged an amphibi- ous attack on Fort Johnson on the northern shore of the island in ...
... attack . Johnston organized the attack by his combined forces on Sherman's left wing units under command of Major General Henry Slocum . At Bentonville on March 19 , the now consol- idated Confederate forces struck two Federal corps on ...