financial loss but also the death of his wife as well as his sister-in-law's successful efforts to poison the relationships between Gonzales and his children. Gonzales's sons, Ambrose and Narciso, became notable journalists. In 1891, they founded The State, a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina. Gonzales became ill as he became older, and his sons sent him to Key West, where Gonzales attended meetings of the Chiefs of the War of 68 and the Delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. He was later interned in a hospital in Long Island, New York. Gonzales died on July 31, 1893, and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City, Plot: Lot A, Range 131, Grave 20. Thus, Gonzales missed, by only a few years, the Spanish–American War of 1898, which achieved the cause that he had long championed, the liberation of Cuba from Spanish rule by US military intervention. See also Hispanics in the American Civil War List of Cuban Americans References External links Biography of Colonel Gonzales at latinamericanstudies.org Elliott and Gonzales Family Papers 1818 births 1893 deaths People from Matanzas People of South Carolina in the American Civil War Cuban generals Confederate States Army officers Cuban emigrants to the United States Hispanic and Latino American Confederates People from Beaufort, South Carolina Benjamin Tillman Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)