A Cuban woman who moved to New Orleans in the 1850s, Loreta Janeta
Velazquez fought in the Civil War as the cross-dressing Harry T.
Buford. As Buford, she single-handedly organized an Arkansas
regiment; participated in the historic battles of Bull Run, Fort
Donelson, and Shiloh; romanced men and women; and eventually
decided that spying as a woman better suited her cause. In the
North, she was posed as a double agent and worked to traffic
information, drugs, and counterfeit bills to support the
Confederate cause. Originally published in 1876, Velazquez's
seemingly impossible account has divided scholars, some believing
this book to be a generally honest autobiography and others
believing it to be mostly fiction.
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