[1] He left his medical studies to join the Carlist Army, where he reached the rank of lieutenant and the position of company commander.

[2] Two years later, for health reasons, he accepted the invitation of the Catasús brothers, and worked as a foreman at the "Río Grande" mill, near Santiago de Cuba, where he met Major General Antonio Maceo at lunch.

During the Cuban War of Independence, he enlisted on the first day, at the head of a contingent of patriots in Holguín with the rank of colonel as he joined the orders of his friend Maceo.

Due to his service at the Battle of Mal Tiempo, he was proposed to Major General, but it was not until the end of the war that he was awarded the rank.

Saddened by Maceo's death at the Battle of San Pedro, he went to Camagüey to continue to Manzanillo, Cuba, where he showed little activity during the rest of the war.

The causes are numbered as: Cause 10808 (fire); cause 1507 for triple murder; cause 416 for threats to the railway company; cause 333 for rebellion however all of these cases were dismissed He was appointed Inspector of the Department of the East as well as Secretary of the Liquidating Board of the Cuban Liberation Army.

[1][2][3] He also wrote in 1897 "Death of General Maceo" and "Notes on the life of Antonio Maceo Grajales" and the drama: "El Pacífico" in 1914 edited by Imprenta y papelería de Rambla, Bouza y Cª de La Habana with the same publishing house that in 1910 he published his novel "Salvador Roca".