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With Lacret and his Staff 57
Lacret and his staff made a picturesque and
entertaining company. Honest old Pio Dominguez, lieutenant-colonel, and tried veteran of the
last war, was senior officer. Then there was Louis
Borde, of Jamaica, a relative of the general, who
was second on the list, ranking as major, a refined,
pleasant-spoken gentleman, an eloquent authority
on the habits and diseases of canary birds ; for the
breeding of them in large aviaries had been his
innocent pastime before the war. Physically he
was the largest, perhaps the strongest, of Lacret's
aides.
Two of the staff, Bertrand and Pujol, proved
the Spanish saying " from Cuban mothers Cuban
offspring." They were sons of Spanish officers
of rank. Bertrand was a handsome young man,
recently promoted from the ranks for gallantry.
His father, a colonel and nobleman, a marquis I
believe, had resigned his commission when his son
ran off to the Manigua. Pujol, a lanky, hard-faced
youth, was son of a Spanish major. Months afterwards he was bayoneted while lying wounded in
a Cuban field-hospital.
There was Piedra, Lacret's secretary, whose
handwriting was beautiful and rapid, Captain Elias
of Tampa, a Cuban-born American, and a little
Havana lawyer, something of a fire-eater and duellist, who bore scars of encounters with rapiers, —
his name has escaped me.
Finally, there was Manoel Camaguey, captain
of the escolta, a boastful but fearless little man
who kept a careful diary of all the engagements he
had ever been in, together with a list of his wounds,
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000094 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | With Lacret and his Staff 57 Lacret and his staff made a picturesque and entertaining company. Honest old Pio Dominguez, lieutenant-colonel, and tried veteran of the last war, was senior officer. Then there was Louis Borde, of Jamaica, a relative of the general, who was second on the list, ranking as major, a refined, pleasant-spoken gentleman, an eloquent authority on the habits and diseases of canary birds ; for the breeding of them in large aviaries had been his innocent pastime before the war. Physically he was the largest, perhaps the strongest, of Lacret's aides. Two of the staff, Bertrand and Pujol, proved the Spanish saying " from Cuban mothers Cuban offspring." They were sons of Spanish officers of rank. Bertrand was a handsome young man, recently promoted from the ranks for gallantry. His father, a colonel and nobleman, a marquis I believe, had resigned his commission when his son ran off to the Manigua. Pujol, a lanky, hard-faced youth, was son of a Spanish major. Months afterwards he was bayoneted while lying wounded in a Cuban field-hospital. There was Piedra, Lacret's secretary, whose handwriting was beautiful and rapid, Captain Elias of Tampa, a Cuban-born American, and a little Havana lawyer, something of a fire-eater and duellist, who bore scars of encounters with rapiers, — his name has escaped me. Finally, there was Manoel Camaguey, captain of the escolta, a boastful but fearless little man who kept a careful diary of all the engagements he had ever been in, together with a list of his wounds, |
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