# Daniel  Gispert García

**Date of birth:** July 21, 1871

**Date of death:** June 25, 1964

**Categories:** Society, journalist, Patriot, Doctor, military

Patriot of San Antonio de los Baños. Doctor of Medicine from the University of la Habana. Outstanding figure in the independence stage as a brilliant journalist.

With his death, one of the most important physicians of the Liberation Army and a fighter in service of the Homeland disappeared. There were many doctors within the ranks of the Liberation Army, however, few were those who from their profession achieved the rank of general.

He joined the independence struggle. He was recognized as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of la Habana.

He left the editorial office of Patria to join the Liberation Army on June 15, 1895. For his actions he was promoted to Brigadier General. His brilliant combat actions took place in the central part of the Island, specifically at Finca Guajén, in Vueltas, former province of Las Villas, in the same year of 1895, six months after the new armed conflict had begun. He had the privilege of passing through the great political stages of: colony to neocolony and from neocolony to revolution.

He was promoted to Brigadier General, serving as Chief of Military Society of the fourth corps of the Liberation Army. During the republic he was president of the National Council of Veterans of Independence. In 1925 he held the position of Secretary of Society and Welfare.

With the rank of lieutenant he fought under the orders of Colonel Rafael Casallas, and in action staged at the San José sugar mill he had his baptism of fire. From that moment on Gispert would participate in various actions and fulfill multiple responsibilities and positions as a fighter, or as a physician.

Among the initial actions were the combats of San Felipe and Los Hondones, while he was of important assistance when the Sánchez-Roloff expedition arrived, landed in the area of Tayabacoa, bordering the territories of Trinidad and Sancti Spíritus.

His official incorporation was to the Fourth Army Corps, which encompassed the former province of Las Villas, in which he came to hold the position of Chief of Military Health, an important aspect within the life of the mambises, taking into account their shortages and the need to improvise to guarantee medical care.

Perhaps driven by his youthful spirit he joined, as a fighter, the ranks of the Liberation Army during the invasion campaign, from East to West masterfully directed by Generals Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo.

That is why we see him fighting in actions of great magnitude such as the combats of Iguará, Mal Tiempo, Coliseo and Calimete, considered among the most important of the invasion campaign.

Subsequently Gispert returned to villareño territory with Serafín Sánchez, and under his orders he served as physician to the General Inspection of the Army. There he was promoted to the rank of Commandant.

Already in 1897, and taking into account his knowledge and experience, he was assigned to the Government Council of Bartolomé Masó as physician, a position with which he concluded the war. In 1898 he was promoted to Brigadier General of the Liberation Army.

With the Republic of 1902 now established, Gispert held multiple responsibilities, both in the capital and in Pinar del Río. In the latter province he was subdelegate of health in San Cristóbal and delegate of Health in Candelaria, as well as provincial councilman.

In la Habana he was Special Inspector of Health, head of the office of the General Inspection of Health and Welfare, director of the Veteran's Ward of Hospital Calixto García, director of the Asylum for the Elderly of Guanabacoa and President of the Superior Board of Health, among many other positions.

He died in la Habana, at the age of 93, the mambí physician Daniel Gispert, Brigadier General of the Liberation Army, the last of the generals of the War of Independence.