: Notes of a War Correspondent by Davis Richard Harding Remington Frederic Illustrator - Davis Richard Harding 1864-1916; Military history Modern; Spanish-American War 1898; South African War 1899-1902; Greco-Turkish War 1897; Cuba History Revolution 1895-18

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NOTES OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT

BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK::::::::::::::::::::::::1911

Contents:

THE CUBAN-SPANISH WAR: THE DEATH OF RODRIGUEZ

Adolfo Rodriguez was the only son of a Cuban farmer, who lived nine miles outside of Santa Clara, beyond the hills that surround that city to the north.

When the revolution in Cuba broke out young Rodriguez joined the insurgents, leaving his father and mother and two sisters at the farm. He was taken, in December of 1896, by a force of the Guardia Civile, the corps d'elite of the Spanish army, and defended himself when they tried to capture him, wounding three of them with his machete.

He was tried by a military court for bearing arms against the government, and sentenced to be shot by a fusillade some morning before sunrise.

Previous to execution he was confined in the military prison of Santa Clara with thirty other insurgents, all of whom were sentenced to be shot, one after the other, on mornings following the execution of Rodriguez.

His execution took place the morning of the 19th of January, 1897, at a place a half-mile distant from the city, on the great plain that stretches from the forts out to the hills, beyond which Rodriguez had lived for nineteen years. At the time of his death he was twenty years old.

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