López, who participated in the battle as a Sergeant of the San Quintín Regiment, would say, being an independentist, that "for a long time afterwards, he was worried about what the reason for that weakness of the Dominicans would be.

[3] In San Pedro, General Luperón would change the usual direction of the previous battles because he had disobeyed the prohibition of fighting battles in open fields, far from the mountains and forests that could protect the rebels, given in October 1863 by the Minister of War and Navy of the Government of Santiago, Matías Ramón Mella, who stated that the Dominican forces should avoid frontal combats, because the Spanish were generally superior in number, had better weapons and greater discipline.

"[2] On January 26, 1864, General Matías Ramón Mella reiterated the instructions he had given to use guerrilla warfare as a form of combat, and not those of the pitched battles typical of regular armies.

In a part of Mella 's report that is addressed to Generals Salcedo, Eusebio Manzueta, Gaspar PoIanco and Aniceto Martínez, he would refer to the events that occurred in the Sabana de San Pedro in an alarming way, stating that:[2] The fact that some leaders have departed from these principles (guerrilla warfare, etc.)

has caused them to experience setbacks and put the country on the brink of the abyss….On the following occasions after that serious failure for the independentists for having taken the decision to fight in open field, General Luperón would obey the decision of General Mella and helped by Marcos Evangelista Adón from his camp in what is currently La Victoria, he undertook a guerrilla war in the area between Monte Plata, Guanuma and Bayaguana, attacking the Spanish convoys that were going to carry ammunition, food and reinforcements to the troops camped there, although he would not obtain with the command of chief any victory against the Spanish.