Detailed Description

Title: Recuerdos del hosital Militar por Pedro Pablo Cervantes
Creator: Cervantes, Pedro Plablo
Publication Info: Bogotá : Imprenta de Echeverría Hermanos, 1878.
Physical Details: p. 3-50 ; 21 5/10 x 14 3/10 cms.
Physical Condition: Frail, fragile: title page severely stained, torn on bottom, entire pamphlet frayed at edges and ink-stained in several places.

Donor Notes: Dedicated to José María Samper, this is a fictionalized account of a Boyacá recruit's travails in 1859, and his hardships in the Bogotá Military Hospital, plus other events of the Federal capture of Bogotá in 1861, resulting in the assassination og the recruit's patron by the Mosquera forces. - J.L.H.

Subject(s): Colombia -- Literature -- 19th century
Colombia -- Armed forces -- 19th century

Type: Pamphlet
Language: Spanish
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: P00720
Record Number: 1176