The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

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An Irrepressible Conflict of Testimony: Linares

The functions of the telegraph operators in breaking up the Spanish combinations are sometimes candidly set forth as in this curious instance: Gen. Weyler's staff planned a manoeuver which would bring all the forces into conjunction surrounding Maceo's army at a point one mile from Colisea. The orders were sent by telegraph to Gens. Prat, Linares and Aldecoa, and Col. Hernandez, requiring them to make that place at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The telegraph operator let the message go correctly to Gen. Prat, but changed the hour to 6 in the other messages; and when Gen. Prat came upon Maceo he had about 3,500 men and the rebels over 8,000 cavalry. Gen. Prat was forced to retreat with the column badly shattered.

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