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Cavada is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adolfo Fernández Cavada (1832–1871), Cuban-born American Civil War veteran and diplomat * Carlos Oviedo Cavada (1927–1998), Chilean Roman Catholic cardinal * Federico Fernández Cavada (1831–1871), American Civil War veteran and diplomat * José Alfonso Cavada (1832–1909), Chilean politician See also * Cavadas (surname) {{surname ...
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Adolfo Fernández Cavada
Adolfo Fernández Cavada (May 17, 1832 – December 18, 1871) was a soldier and diplomat, an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who served as captain in the Philadelphia 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, a regiment of the Union Forces, with his brother, Colonel Federico Fernández Cavada. He served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac in the battles of Fredericksburg and Gettysburg and was a "special aide-de-camp" to General Andrew A. Humphreys.Cavada Brothers, by Daniel Rolph. PhD, Historian & Head of Reference Services, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
After the war, Fernández Cavada was appointed as consul in Cienfuegos, Cuba. He joined his brother, who had been in Trinidad, in the ...
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Carlos Oviedo Cavada
Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (19 January 1927 – 7 December 1998) was a Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from 1990 to 1998, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994. Biography Cavada was born in Santiago, and entered the Order of Mercy on 28 January 1944, taking simple vows on 18 March 1945 and solemn vows on 19 March 1948. He entered the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was ordained on 24 September 1949 in Santiago and later went on to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1949 to 1953 where he earned a doctorate in canon law. He was a faculty member and spiritual director at St. Peter Nolasco School and after that a faculty member at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile from 1953 until 1958. From 1958 until 1961 he worked in the general curia of his order and pursued further studies in the Vatican Secret Archives. Pope Paul VI appointed him titular bishop of Benevento and A ...
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Federico Fernández Cavada
Federico Fernández-Cavada (July 8, 1831July 1, 1871) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a diplomat, as well as commander-in-chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Years' War. Because of his artistic talents, he was assigned to the Hot Air Balloon Unit of the Union Army. From the air he sketched what he observed of enemy positions and movements. On April 19, 1862, Fernández Cavada sketched enemy positions from Thaddeus Lowe's ''Constitution'' balloon during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. At the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was captured during the Battle of Gettysburg and sent to Libby Prison for Union officers in Richmond, Virginia. Released in 1864, that year he published a book which told of the cruel treatment which he received in the Confederate prison.The Latino Experience in U.S. History"; publisher: Globe Pearson; pages 155-157; His brother Adolfo Fernández Cavada also served as an officer in the Union Army. After the wa ...
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José Alfonso Cavada
José Alfonso Cavada (February 4, 1832 – March 23, 1909) was Chilean minister of foreign affairs (1876–1878) and finance (1880–1881). He was twice President of the Supreme Court of Chile (1895, 1902). References *Los radicales ante la historia. Julio Sepúlveda Rondanelli, 1993. *Anales de la República: Textos constitucionales de Chile y registro de los cuidadanos que han integrado los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo desde 1810, Volume 1. Andres Bello, 1951. External links *http://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=cavada-jose-alfonso 1832 births 1909 deaths Foreign ministers of Chile Chilean Ministers of Finance {{Chile-politician-stub ...
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