Ignacio Rivas
Ignacio Rivas Graces was a Uruguayan-born Argentine Divisional General of the Argentine Civil Wars and the Paraguayan War. He was notable for being one of the main general who sided with Bartolomé Mitre during the but when he was arrested he was discharged and after being pardoned, he was reincorporated into the Argentine Army in 1877. Family and Origin Ignacio Rivas was born on July 31, 1827, at Paysandú, which then had rejoined the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata two years ago after separating from the Empire of Brazil. Ignacio was the son of the Spanish-Andalusian landowner Andrés Rivas (b. ca. 1781 – Tacuarembó, Uruguay, ca. 1857) and his Portuguese-Brazilian wife Ignacia Graces (b. Captaincy of Rio Grande de San Pedro, ca. 1800 – Salto, Uruguay, ca. 1880). He had four siblings, the eldest was a paternal half-sister named Andrea Rivas (. 1820 – d. 1895) who married Rafael Bosch, Doraliza Rivas Graces (Paysandú, ca. 1826 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 20, 1908) who married in 1842 with the then infantry lieutenant Estanislao Panelo y Pérez de Saravia who would later be the Mayor of Concordia in 1849, and the minors were the Argentine-Uruguayan landowner Andrés Riva