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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Chapter XVI

Battle Of Bayamo And Results.

Campos' First Sharp Check--Spaniards Much Shaken--Severe and Interesting Battle--General Santocildes Sacrifices his Life to Save that of Campos--Maceo does not Permit his Sharpshooters to Pick off Campos--Maceo's Humanity to the Wounded.

Far the most severe battle of the first campaign of the present war was that in which Martinez Campos and the rebel chiefs were pitted against each other, in July last, near Bayamo--a conflict in which was announced to the hard-pressed captain-general of Spain, and all observers able to understand the facts, that there was a crisis in Cuba. The mettle and the method, the power and conduct of the insurgents, were made known on that bloody field, to the world. It was the first sharp check that Campos received and the time when he was admonished that his part as conquering hero was well nigh played through.

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