Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis - W) 2021 Participants included future presidential cabinet

Participants included future presidential cabinet members

Organization of American Historians

Lee McCardell narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded near his jeep

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This volume features an easy-to-follow format that showcases Pritchard's text on the left-hand pages and Emerson's insightful annotations on the right-hand pages

Inventing Loreta Velasquez: Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist (William C. Davis - W) 2021 Participants included future presidential cabinetby 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.