ETNOHISTORIA, EPISTEMOLOGÍA Y HERMENÉUTICA DE LA GUERRA FEDERAL: MEMORIA DE UN CORONEL ILUSTRADO (1859 ˗1863)

Abstract

The present investigation is oriented towards the analysis of the Federal War in the memory of a Colonel of the Federation (1859-1863), through the manuscript made by Emilio Navarro Miquilena, published in 1959, a subject from which until now no one had lent more attention, only the publication of the writings of the aforementioned character, on the occasion of the Centenary of the beginning of the Federal War. Such a situation, still without explanation, is what is intended to be covered by the present investigation, not only addressed the vision of one of the most relevant events of the Republican era; so here the purpose is to focus on the biography of Colonel Navarro, of whom there are various details of his life and still remain in the mystery, nothing is known of its existence in the years following the triumph of the federals, in 1863. The objective was to interpret, through the study of sources of documentary nature, the ethnohistorical biographical impact, of events ˗ circumstances that surrounded the last years of the life of Emilio Navarro. Hermeneutical analysis of the data, sources, texts, journals, manuscripts, and other official documents that served as support to establish foundations and criteria to the hypotheses established here was used. He presented a non-experimental research design (ex post facto), in which the data and sources provided are impossible to manipulate. The results are that Colonel Navarro had an excellent performance during and after the end of the Federal War.