Spanish Officers to Captain Charles S. Cotton
U.S.S. Harvard,
Off Altares, Cuba,
July 5, 1898.
Los abajo firmantes jefes oficiales y Guardias Marines de la Escuadra Espanol, prisoners de Guerra abordo del buque de los Estados Unidos de America el “Harvard”, samos nuestra palabra de honor de no tartar de escapamos, ni hacer armas contra su tripulacion, ni tartar de inutilizar sus maquinas ni artilleria, durante el viage del citado buque desde Santiago de Cuba a los Estados Unidos; y esta palabra es recojida por el Sr. Comandante del “Harvard” y al mismo tiempo hremos uso de toda nuestra influencia para suprimir cualquier desorden o levantamiento en armas del resto los prisoneros durante el citado viage.
The undersigned chief officers and naval cadets of the Spanish Squadron, prisoners of war on board the United States Cruiser Harvard, give our word of honor not to try to escape nor to take arms against its crew; nor to try to make useless its artillery during voyage of said ship from Santiago de Cuba to the United States1 and this word is recognized by the Senior Commandant of the Harvard,2 and at the same time we will use all our influence to suppress any disorder or rising in arms of the rest of the prisoners during the said voyage.
Juan d Aznar Enrique Maria Lopez
3rd Comante del Infanta Ma Teresa Teniente de Navio
Gerardo Armijo Rafael Perez Ojeda
Teniente de Navio Teniente de Navio
Teniente de Navio Teniente de Navio
Luis Berdejo TómasCalvar Tente de Navio
Teniente de Navio
JaoquinChiqueri R. Rodriguez Navarro –Alferez
Teniente de Navio Marino
Alfredo Nardiz Alferez de
Navio
Alfonso de Meer Alferez de Navio Capitan de G Ma.
Angel [Zdado?]
Francisco Callo Alferez de Navio
Contador de Navio
Eduardo Urdapilleta 1st Medico
Salvador [Secida?]
2d Medico Benito Martinez
2a Capellán Marquinista Mayor de 1a
José Riera Senác Francisco Frey
Guardia Marina Marquinista Mayor de 2a.
QuirinoGutierrez Carlos Garcia
Guardia Marina Guardia Marina
Guardia Marina Antonio Bartolomé
José Velasco de la Peña Guardia Marina
RaimundoTorres Juan P. Diez-Escribano
Emilio P. del Pobil Alferez de Navio
Guardia Marina
Source Note: TLS, DLC-MSS, Papers of Charles S. Cotton. In handwriting upper right corner: “Witness/Joseph Beale/Lieutenant U.S.N./E. A. Brooks,/Naval Cadet, U.S.N.” There are two copies of this document, one in English and one in Spanish, with the same signed names, although the placement of the last name, Juan Baptiste Bovez, is different on the two pages.
Footnote 1: The enlisted Spanish prisoners were taken to Seavey’s Island, NH, while the majority of the officers were sent to the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. The seriously wounded were taken to the naval hospital in Norfolk, VA. Chadwick, Relations of the United States and Spain, II, 189.
Footnote 2: Capt. Charles S. Cotton.
