Loreta janet a velazquez biography of albert

Loreta Janeta Velazquez was born in Cuba, but she was sent to school in New Orleans and at age 14 eloped with an officer in the Texas army.

Elizabeth Young writes at length about Loreta Velazquez's sexual politics in A Woman in Battle and tracks how Velazquez interacts with other.

The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford.

A wealthy Cuban-born aristocrat, Loretta Janet Velazquez was undeterred when her husband refused to let her join him when he left New Orleans to.

Wild child Loretta Velasquez was never a fan of a lady's trappings.

The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford.!

Loreta Janeta Velázquez

American Civil War spy (1842–1923)

Loreta Janeta Velázquez (19th-century – 1923) was an American woman who wrote that she had masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War.

The book she wrote about her experiences says that after her soldier husband's accidental death, she enlisted in the Confederate States Army in 1861. She then fought at Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, and Fort Donelson, but was discharged when her sex was discovered while in New Orleans.

Undeterred, she reenlisted and fought at Shiloh, until unmasked once more.

“The Soldier: Loreta Janeta Velazquez Alias Lt. Harry T. Buford,”.

She then became a Confederate spy, working in both male and female guises, and as a double agent also reporting to the U.S. Secret Service. She remarried three more times, being widowed in each instance.

According to historian William C.

Davis, she died in January 1923 under the name Loretta J. Beard after many years away from the public eye in a public psychiatric facility, St. Elizabeths Hospital. Most of