[1] When she was released, she and her husband, José Florentino Varona, joined the cause of the Cuban Liberation Army in 1868.

During the Ten Years' War, she assisted the sick and wounded, made clothes and acted as a messenger.

Major General Máximo Gómez appointed her as a captain of health and entrusted her with the mission of creating a hospital that received the name of "Santa Rosa", in her honor.

[4] When the Cuban War of Independence broke out in 1895, she was already 60 years old, but she continued to collaborate with the rebels and Gómez put her back in charge of the hospital he had founded.

She died in Camagüey on 25 September 1907 and her body was publicly laid to rest at the headquarters of the City Council.