Inventing Loreta Velasquez : Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Davis, William C., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, > 1842-1923.
Women soldiers.
Women social reformers.
Women journalists.
Swindlers and swindling.
Male impersonators.
Celebrities.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Femmes militaires > États confederes d'Amerique > Biographies.
Actrices travesties > États confederes d'Amerique > Biographies.
Reformatrices sociales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
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.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mysteries on Mysteries
  • Who Was She?
  • "Heroine in a Fix"
  • The Summer of Harry Buford
  • "In Secret Service"
  • "Win My Glory Back"
  • "You Will Learn A Little More of Me"
  • Lost Months in the Shadows
  • The Return of Mrs. DeCaulp
  • Gold, Silver, and Bigamy
  • "An Imposter of No Ordinary Rank"
  • Enter "Madame Velasquez"
  • The Woman in Battle
  • Embattled Woman
  • "She is a Promoter"
  • The First Big Cons
  • "I Have Never Met Her Equal"
  • "The Old Battle Light"
  • Legend, Legacy, and Legerdemain.

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