Inventing Loreta Velasquez : Confederate soldier impersonator, media celebrity, and con artist /

Inventing Loreta Velasquez : Confederate soldier impersonator, media celebrity, and con artist / William C. Davis.

"Inventing Loreta Velasquez is a search for the reality behind the woman known as Loreta Velasquez, author of The Woman in Battle, one of only two memoirs by women who claimed to have posed as men to serve in the Civil War. For many years, historians have questioned the authenticity of parts of...

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Main Author: Davis, William C., 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, > 1842-1923.
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Women soldiers > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Male impersonators > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Celebrities > United States > Biography.
Swindlers and swindling > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Celebrities.
Male impersonators.
Swindlers and swindling.
Women journalists.
Women social reformers.
Women soldiers.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
Biography.
History.
Biographies.

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