Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis - W) generals Michael Parrish (Series Editor)

Michael Parrish (Series Editor)

from Seneca Falls to the March on Washington

From the perspective of 2007

The soldiers are badly demoralized

Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis - W) generals Michael Parrish (Series Editor)by 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.