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I.  Introduction

          Over the years I have found, photocopied, and transcribed about one thousand unpublished Sandinista documents -- letters, notes, orders, diaries, prayers, lists, drafts, receipts, certificates, songs, poems -- the great majority captured by the Marines and Guardia during offensive operations.  A huge cache of documents -- about half of those in my possession -- did not appear in the National Archives' inventories until after the year 2000.  I was fortunate to be the first person in 70 years (1934-2004) to look at them. 

          More than a third of these S-Docs are transcribed from photocopies of originals; most of the rest are transcriptions of English translations produced by the Marines & Guardia; in the latter case, the originals were probably either destroyed or taken as war souvenirs. 

          The Sandinistas produced tens of thousands of documents, of which only a small portion survives to the present day, at least in public repositories.  Just about everything that does survive, and that hasn't been published elsewhere, will reside here.  This material is probably the single most important collection on this website.

           Only about ten documents appear on each page.  This is to make loading the pages easier; to make lifting the material off the website a tad more arduous; to make it easier to keep track of things; and to accord each document the attention it deserves.  At ten documents per page, there will eventually be about 100 pages in this collection.  Right now there are 16.  An index to these pages appears here; a link to it appears on every S-Docs page.  There are two other indices:  one lists the documents by author, another by recipient.  Sandino, for example, authored around 277 of these documents (at the current count).  None have been published before now. 

          (It should be noted that most of the S-Docs reproduced here are relatively short; as the war picked up steam, the missives grew considerably longer.  While this site includes about 16 percent of the S-Docs [ca. 160 of 1,000], it probably includes only around 2 percent of the total number of words in the S-Docs collection.)

          There follows the "master inventory" of these documents (organized chronologically), followed by explanatory notes that apply to all S-Docs pages. 


II.  Master Inventory

Date         p.

   From    To
11.03.07   1 Bellorin, Antonio Peralta, Crescencio
20.05.27 Colindres, Juan Gregorio Colindres, Maria R  (mother)
20.09.27 Falcon, Bernardo Peralta, Crescencio
26.03.17 Reyes, Pompilio Herrera, Andrés
26.04.22 González, Edmundo Pérez, Martin 
26.07.29 Morina, Moises, Jr Morina, Moises, Sr
26.10.26 Altamirano, Pablo Contreras, Calazan
26.12.24 Altamirano, P. Iglesias, Alanacia, vda. de Acuña
27.02.21 Gómez, Saturnino de J. Iglesias, Alanacia, vda. de Acuña
27.03.17 Sandino Orders
27.03.19   2 Aguilar, Regino Palacios, Buenaventura
27.04.01 Sandino Manifesto
27.04.13 Quiñónez, Leopoldo Iglesias, Alanacia, vda. de Acuña
27.04.14 Quiñónez, Leopoldo Iglesias, Alanacia, vda. de Acuña
27.04.15 Rivera, Guadalupe Mairena, Pastora viuda de
27.04.18 Sandino Mayor M.E. Shearer, Comandante del 3 Batallon, 5 Reg., U.S. Marine Corps
27.04.18 Sandino Señor Comandante 3 Batallon 5 Reg M.E. Shearer
27.04.19 Rivera, Guadalupe Mairena, Pastora viuda de
27.04.19 Sandino Mayor M.E. Shearer, Comandante de U.S. Marine Corps
27.04.20 Shearer, M.E., Major, USMC Sandino, General Augusto C.
27.04.25   3 Castillo Rodríguez, D. Military Chiefs, Alcaldes, and Comandantes of the Republic
27.04.30 Lobo, Joaquin C. Herrera, Andrés
27.05.22 García, Timoteo Contreras, Calazan
27.05.24 Sandino Moncada
27.06.05 Webster, A. E. Rivera, Abraham
27.06.07 Sandino Siercke, Francisco & Brother
27.06.07 Ardon H., G. Agasse, Hipolito
27.06.17 Sandino Ramírez, Arnoldo M.
27.06.20 Sandino Cárdenas, Alejandro General
27.06.22 Estrada, Francisco Echevarría, Manuel, Don
27.06.22   4 Estrada, Francisco Echevarría, Manuel, Sr. Gral Dn
27.06.26 Sandino Telles, Gral Ramón
27.06.28 Acuña, Adela Alcalde of Jalapa
27.07.01 Talavera, J.G. Alvarez, Transito
27.07.02 Estrada, Francisco Echevarría, General Manuel
27.07.02 Sandino Echevarría, General Manuel
27.07.02 Laura Gómez, Filadelfia
27.07.04 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.07.05 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.07.07 Estrada, Francisco Echevarría, General
27.07.10   5 Aguirre, Eugenio Irías, Alfonso
27.07.10 Sandino Plan de Ataque al Ocotal
27.07.15 Sandino Manifesto
27.07.17 Estrada, Francisco Irías, Alfonso
27.07.19 Estrada, Francisco Echevarría, General
27.07.20 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.07.25 Sandino Sketches
27.07.26 Fuerta Rivera, Maria Luisa Rivera, Abraham
27.07.27   López, José Antonio Sandino
27.08.01 Peard, R.W. Salgado, Carlos, Sr. Gral.
27.08.01   6 Sandino Echevarría, General, and Antonio López
27.08.01  Laura Gómez, Filadelfia
27.08.14 Rivera, Eustaguia Rivera, Abraham
27.08.15 Rivera, T.D. Rivera, Abraham
27.08.16 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.08.17 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.08.18 Moncada, José Maria Salgado, Carlos
27.08.19 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.08.19 Salgado, Carlos Moncada, José Maria
27.08.20 Sandino Local Comandant, Yali
27.08.25

Sandino

García, Timoteo

27.08.25   7 Peard, R. W Salgado, Carlos
27.08.25   Salgado, Carlos My Compatriots
27.08.25 Sandino García, Timoteo
27.08.26 Salgado, Carlos Peard, Captain
27.08.26 Salgado, Carlos Sr. [Pro.perd] Capitan, U.S. Marine Corps, Somoto
27.08.28 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.08.30 Sandino Salgado, Carlos, and Porfirio Sánchez and José León Díaz
27.09.01 Albertina Remembered Sir
27.09.01 Ardon, Nicolas Sandino
27.09.01 Peard, R. W. Salgado, Carlos
27.09.01   8 Sandino Echevarría
27.09.02 Sandino Largaespada, Andrés
27.09.02 unknown unknown
27.09.15 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.09.15 Rivera, Guadalupe Sandino
27.09.19 anonymous diary of events unknown
27.09.24 [a] Sandino Froylán Turcios
27.09.24 [b] Sandino Turcios, Froylán
27.10.02 Sandino Echevarría, General
27.10.08 Sandino Manifesto
27.10.08   9 Sandino