Gustavo Figueredo y Vazquez

His parents: Pedro Felipe Figueredo y Cisneros and Isabel Vasquez y Moreno

Children: none

Gustavo Figueredo y Vazquez was born in 1856, according to Juan Rueda and Antonio Cacua Prada.  Flora Mora suggests 1851 or 1852.  He took part in the capture of Bayamo in 1868, riding at the side of his sister Candelaria, who carried the Cuban flag.  Flora Mora wrote in Biografia de Perucho Figueredo, of the strict discipline imposed by Perucho Figueredo following the taking of Bayamo in 1868.  The guards had standing orders to challenge anybody entering the encampment.  She tells of a guard who allowed Perucho, whom the guard recognized, to enter unchallenged, and how Perucho had him arrested for failing to follow orders!  Not even Perucho’s son was exempt.  Flora Mora continued:  En otra oportunidad fue su hijo Gustavo el arrestado porque su fusil no estaba limpio [On another occasion, his son, Gustavo was arrested because his rifle was not clean].  When the Spanish surprised Figueredo and his family at Santa Rosa in August 1870, Gustavo, along with two sons of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, carried Perucho Figueredo, who was extremely sick, into hiding before returning to the fight.  Gustavo died later in another encounter with Spanish troops.