author

Karl Stephen Herrman

A little-known writer of military history, remembered for a firsthand account of the U.S. campaign in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. His surviving work offers an on-the-ground view of marching, fighting, and daily life in western Puerto Rico at the turn of the twentieth century.

1 Audiobook

From Yauco to Las Marias A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan

From Yauco to Las Marias A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan

by Karl Stephen Herrman

About the author

Karl Stephen Herrman — also often listed as Karl Stephen Herrmann — is known for From Yauco to Las Marias, published in 1900. Library and catalog records identify it as a history of the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico, focused on the Independent Regular Brigade under Brigadier-General Theodore Schwan.

The book stands out because it reads as a close, experience-based account of the western Puerto Rico campaign rather than a distant summary. Modern catalog and public-domain listings suggest that this is the main work by which he is remembered, and some records also show the related title A Recent Campaign in Puerto Rico.

Very little confirmed biographical information about Herrman appears to be readily available in major public sources. Because of that, he is best introduced through his work itself: a compact early twentieth-century narrative that preserves one participant's perspective on a brief but consequential military campaign.