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

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"She went by many names--Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more--but 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, William C., 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, > 1842-1923.
1861-1865
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Swindlers and swindling > United States > Biography.
Celebrities > United States > Biography.
Male impersonators > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Women soldiers > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Femmes journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Réformatrices sociales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Actrices travesties > États confédérés d'Amérique > Biographies.
Femmes militaires > États confédérés d'Amérique > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
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.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo

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