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

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"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 the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, William C., 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, > 1842-1923.
Women soldiers > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Male impersonators > Confederate States of America > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Celebrities > United States > Biography.
Swindlers and swindling > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Celebrities.
Male impersonators.
Swindlers and swindling.
Women journalists.
Women social reformers.
Women soldiers.
United States.
United States > Confederate States of America.
1861-1865
History.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xi, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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