Loreta janet a velazquez biography of abraham
Loreta Janeta Velázquez 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 She then fought at Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, and Fort Donelson, but was discharged when her sex was.