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Finding Aid to the Documentos de la Comisión Confidencial,
1858-1869
BANC MSS M-M 325-339
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Collection Title: Documentos de la Comisión Confidencial,
Date (inclusive): 1858-1869
Collection Number: BANC MSS M-M 325-339
Creator: Vega, Plácido, 1830-1878
Extent:
Number of containers: 8 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 oversize folders
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: These papers, originals and copies, consist of correspondence, documents,
accounts, and vouchers relating mainly to General Placido Vega's secret mission to obtain articles of
war and funds in San Francisco, California, for the republican government of Benito Juarez in Mexico
against the French invaders of Napoleon III. There is also material on Vega's activities in connection
with volunteers from the United States in forming an expedition to invade Mexico, the Mexican "Juntas
Patrioticas" in the United States, and military operations in Mexico (1858-1869). Includes
correspondence with Benito Juarez, Matias Romero and Jesus Gonzalez Ortega. See also the published
articles of Robert Ryal Miller on General Vega.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
[Identification of item], Documentos de la Comisión Confidencial, BANC MSS M-M 325-339,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
These papers, acquired in 1875 from Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, form part of the H. H. Bancroft
Collection. They consist of correspondence, documents, accounts, and vouchers relating mainly to General
Plácido Vega's mission to obtain weapons and funds in San Francisco for the republican
government of Mexico against the French invasion. There is also material concerning the Mexican
patriotic societies in California, Vega's activities with American volunteers in forming an expedition
to Mexico, and military operations in Mexico.
Three volumes of correspondence and documents, M-M 325, M-M 326, and M-M 327, were unbound and the
contents placed in folders. The original order and numbering have been retained. The arrangement of
these three volumes is roughly chronological, with some overlapping of material in each volume. Some
items upon being repaired were placed in an oversize portfolio. Dummies have been placed in the boxes
for these items, and the report annotated.
A brief description of the contents of each volume follows, and a partial list of correspondents may be
found at the end of the report.