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William Rufus Shafter
October 16, 1835 – November 12, 1906
Born Galesburg, Michigan
Died Bakersfield, California
Major General, U.S. Army; Spanish–American War — commanding V Corps, Santiago de Cuba campaign (June–July 1898), including San Juan Heights approaches and the siege that forced Spanish surrender
William R. Shafter’s Spanish–American War file is the Santiago land campaign of June–July 1898. As major general commanding V Corps, he directed the Daiquirí–Siboney landings, the advance on Santiago, and the siege that closed after El Caney and the San Juan Heights fighting — orders and returns in War Department Cuba expedition papers, not only Rough Rider folklore. Spanish surrender at Santiago followed in mid-July.
Civil War Medal of Honor service and later Pacific department command sit elsewhere. This register keeps V Corps at Santiago: June–July 1898, corps command, result on the Cuban shore. Shafter died in Bakersfield, California, in 1906. The public-domain Shafter portrait on Wikimedia Commons is used here. He is not listed as missing.
- Publication
- NN-HERO-1898-011
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