Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis - W) generals From the perspective of 2007

From the perspective of 2007

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The General and The Texas: A Pictorial History of the Andrews Raid

Michael Parrish (Series Editor)

Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis - W) generals From the perspective of 2007by William C. Davis She went by many namesMary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and morebut history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy. In Inventing Loreta Velasquez, acclaimed historian William C. Davis delves into the life of one of Americas early celebrities, peeling back the myths she herself created to reveal a startling and even more implausible reality.