THIS IS THE HOMEPAGE
for the "Soldados / Soldiers" section of the
Gente / People pages of these EDSN webpages.
On August 25,1932,
the Jefe Director of the Guardia Nacional wrote
a confidential letter directing the commanding
officers in towns across Las Segovias to compile
lists of "known bandits" in their districts (a
second was issued to some garrisons on Aug. 29).
The resulting lists run to a score of pages and
include hundreds of names. The Marines & Guardia
had been making such lists since the start of
the war.
The directive of August
1932 generated a kind of roster of the
rank-and-file members of the EDSN at the time --
at least of those known to La Guardia.
Reports from Ocotal, Jinotega, Matagalpa,
Esteli, Condega, Somoto, Palacagüina, and El
Sauce were found in the US National Archives,
Record Group 127, Entry 38, Box 18, and appear
as JPEG images below.
This is probably as
close as we'll ever get to a comprehensive list
of the members of the EDSN at the height of the
struggle.
Lists of
"Known Bandits," 1931-1932
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March 18,
1931. List of Bandits in the
District of Palacagüina, p. 1.
Included here to
illustrate a broader pattern of
list-making long before the directive of
25 August 1932; indeed, the Marines
started making lists of "bandit chiefs"
from the moment they started intervening
-- a practice doubtless learned years
earlier in the Philippines, Dominican
Republic, and Haiti.
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March 18,
1931. List of Bandits in the
District of Palacagüina, p. 2.
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August
28, 1932, List of Known Bandits, Estelí.
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September
5, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Ocotal, p. 1.
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September
5, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Ocotal, p. 2.
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September
5, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Ocotal, p. 3.
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September
5, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Ocotal, p. 4.
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September
5, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Condega, p. 1.
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September
7, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Jinotega, p. 1.
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September
7, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Jinotega, p. 2.
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September
7, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Jinotega, p. 3.
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September
7, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Jinotega, p. 4.
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September
7, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Jinotega, p. 5.
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September
11, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
El Sauce, p. 1.
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September
11, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
El Sauce, p. 2.
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September
18, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Estelí.
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September
20, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Matagalpa, p. 1.
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September
20, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Matagalpa, p. 2.
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September
22, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Somoto, p. 1.
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September
22, 1932. List of Known Bandits,
Somoto, p. 2.
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These pages are in
progress.
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