The Beaufort County Historical Society Summer Program will be at 1 p.m. June 22 at the Beaufort County Library, 311 Scott St., Beaufort. The public is invited.

Guest speaker Antonio Rafael de la Cova will discuss his new book, "Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales."

Of particular interest locally, Gonzales married Harriet Rutledge Elliott, daughter of William Elliott III of Beaufort, in 1856. He served South Carolina during the Civil War and later settled at Oak Lawn Plantation.

His sons Narcisco, Ambrose and William Elliott Gonzales became famous journalists, founding The State newspaper in Columbia in 1891.

In addition to writing the definitive biography of Gonzales, who figured prominently in both Cuba's struggle against Spain and the Confederacy's fight for secession, de la Cova is assistant professor of Latin American studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.