A link discovered over at Neatorama.com: a profile of Loreta Janeta Velasquez, the Cuban-born woman who fought disguised as a man with the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War (from the Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Army website). Velasquez masqueraded as Lt. Harry T. Buford and published her memoirs in 1876. You can read The Woman in Battle online from UNC-Chapel Hill's Documenting the American South.
Stealth Fighter (Boston Globe)
Madame Loreta Janeta Velasquez: Heroine or Hoaxer? by Sylvia D. Hoffert (TheHistoryNet)
24 March 2008
The Woman in Battle
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