It certainly, however, traversed the Bayamo region, and went as far west as Camaguey.
Bayamo, or St. Salvador,—sixty miles west of Santiago, numbers nearly ten thousand souls.
On the 15th of October it was decided to attack Bayamo, an important town of ten thousand inhabitants.
He also organized the militia, creating six companies in Havana, two in Santiago and two in Bayamo.
The rebels installed themselves in the city of Bayamo, which for several weeks they contrived to hold against the enemy.