Research Catalog

Title

Marching with Gomez : a war correspondent's field notebook, kept during four months with the Cuban army / by Grover Flint ; illustrated by the author ; with an historical introduction by John Fiske.

Author

Flint, Grover, 1867-1909

Publication

• Boston ; New York ; London : Lamson, Wolffe and Company, MDCCCXCVIII. [1898]
• ©1898.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fiske, John, 1842-1901.
• Lamson, Wolffe & Co., publisher.
• Norwood Press, printer.
• J.S. Cushing & Co., printer.
• Berwick & Smith, printer.

Description

xxix, [1], 290, 5, [1] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, plans; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Cuba > History > Revolution, 1895-1898 > Personal narratives
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Publishers' catalogs > New York (State) > New York
• Cuba > History > Revolution, 1895-1898 > Campaigns

Genre/Form

• Publishers' catalogs – New York (State) – New York.
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half title.
• Frontispiece plate with map included in pagination.
• "Copyright, 1898, by Lamson, Wolffe and Company. All Rights reserved."--verso of title page.
• "The Norwood Press. J.S. Cushing & Co. -- Berwick & Smith. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Publisher's catalog, p. 1-5, [1] at end.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in pencil on back of frontispiece map "Arthur A. Schomburg N.Y. City." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Introduction -- Searching for Gomez: A Pacifico household ; Savanas nuevas ; Singeing the king's beard ; A skirmish with the "Gringos" ; "Pacified Matanzas" ; with Lacret and his staff ; The Prefectura Pedrosa ; Marto's men ; The zone of Cienfuegos ; Typical atrocities, the Olayita massacre ; Crossing the line -- Marching with Gomez: The man under the hub ; Gomez' staff ; Manajanabo ; Our last skirmish in Las Villas ; Into Camaguey ; Gomez' moral campaign in Camaguey ; Gomez and Hernandez ; The battle of Saratoga ; Echoes of Saratoga ; The itinerant government ; Cuba libre ; The sub-prefectura Yatal -- Appendix A: Social classes in Cuba ; Appendix B: The organization of the Cuban Army ; Appendix C: The death of Mr. Crosby and the murder of Mr. Govin ; Appendix D: What concentration means ; Appendix E: The effects of the modern Mauser bullet.

Call Number

Sc 972.91-F (Flint, G. Marching with Gomez)

LCCN

03009012

OCLC

• 1267895
• NYPGR1267895-B

Author

Flint, Grover, 1867-1909, author.

Title

Marching with Gomez : a war correspondent's field notebook, kept during four months with the Cuban army / by Grover Flint ; illustrated by the author ; with an historical introduction by John Fiske.

Publisher

Boston ; New York ; London : Lamson, Wolffe and Company, MDCCCXCVIII. [1898]

Copyright Date

©1898.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 972.99-F (accession no. B497982) inscribed: in pencil on back of frontispiece map "Arthur A. Schomburg N.Y. City." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Fiske, John, 1842-1901.

Lamson, Wolffe & Co., publisher.

Norwood Press, printer.

J.S. Cushing & Co., printer.

Berwick & Smith, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc 972.91-F (Flint, G. Marching with Gomez)