Pedro de Céspedes y del Castillo

Pedro de Céspedes was a Cuban revolutionary and landowner who was executed in the Virginius Affair during the Ten Years' War.

Pedro de Céspedes y del Castillo was born in Bayamo, Oriente Province, Spanish Cuba on January 31, 1825.

[1] He was a member of a prominent Cuban family and the younger brother of the first President of the Republic of Cuba in Arms Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

On October 31, 1873, the Virginius was intercepted near Jamaica by the Spanish cruiser Tornado who was alerted of the American blockade runner.

[5] The list of captives included Céspedes, Bernabé Varona, Jesús del Sol, William A.C. Ryan, and Joseph Fry, the steamer's captain.