Manuel de Jesús Valdés Urra

A man of culture and popular figure of the Mambí Army. A spontaneous and talented orator, a tenacious abolitionist, he delivered a single speech during the debates of the Assembly of Guáimaro, in which, while harshly criticizing the prolonged interventions that took place there, he declared: "Gentlemen, fight and do not talk so much". He was one of those who helped burn the town of Guáimaro so that the Spanish would not take it. During the war he attained the rank of Colonel in the mambí army.

Until the day of his death he took charge of demonstrating his valor in combat.