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Loreta Janeta Velazquez

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 * 3) Notes organized by source.
 * 4) Each source is annotated.
 * Born in Cuba on June 26, 1842 to a wealthy family.
 * Went to school in New Orleans in 1849 where she stayed with her aunt.
 * When she was 14 she married a man that was in the Texas Army.
 * When her husband joined the arm she pleaded to let her join but when he denied for her request to join.
 * She gave herself the rank of Lieutenant and went to Arkansas to gain a regiment of volunteers.
 * After gaining enough people for the regiment she brought it to her husband. After a few days after finding her husband he was later killed in a shooting accident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreta_Janeta_Vel%C3%A1zquez http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2234.htm
 * Velázquez recorded her adventures in her 600-page book, The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velázquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T Buford, Confederate States Army.
 * Born to a wealthy Cuban official and a mother of French and American ancestry.
 * Also used the name Alice Williams.
 * United States due to having lost an inherited ranch in the Mexican-American War at San Luis Potosi.
 * She learned english at a school in new Orleans while she was living with her aunt.
 * When fourteen years old, she eloped with a Texas United States Army officer known only as William on April 5, 1856. She initially continued to live with her aunt, but after a quarrel with her she moved in with her husband and lived at various army posts, estranging herself further from her family by converting to Methodism
 * originally published in 1876 as The Woman in Battle, this Civil War narrative offers Velazquez's seemingly impossible autobiographical account, as well as a new critical introduction and glossary by Jesse Alemán.
 * Mainly in depth about the book.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/03/part-i-rebel-loreta-janeta-velazquez-civil-war-soldier-and-spy.html
 * After her husband was killed she traveled North as an independent solider and meet up with her regiment just in time for the Battle of Bull Run.
 * Later she went to Washing D.C. and gained intelligence about the Union. She later joined the detective corps.
 * The Espionage didn't have enough excitement for her so she went back to the battlefield and showed her strength there. Resuming her disguise she went and fought in the Battle of Fort Donelson. She later was wounded in the foot and didn't want to go to an on site medic because she thought that her gender would be found out so she returned home. When returning home still in her disguise she was arrested for being a spy for the Union. The accounts got dropped but she was fined for impersonating a man. Still not content with the actions that took place she returned to Tennessee she found her original regiment and fought with them in the Battle of Shiloh. While on burial duty she was wounded on the side by an exploding shell and a military doctor found out her true gender. She at this point gave up becoming a solider and gave up her services to becoming a spy.

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"Loreta Janeta Valazquez." //Council on Foreign Relations//. Council on Foreign Relations, n.d. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. < http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/loreta-janeta-velazquez.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/>


 * This source is reliable because it is a well known organization that their main focus is to preserve the grounds of the Civil War. It's focus is to focus on the people that structured the Civil War.

"Loreta Janeta Valazquez." N.p., n.d. Web. 
 * This is a reliable source because the source was given to me from my teacher.

"Part I: "Rebel:" Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Civil War Soldier and Spy." //National Museum of American History//. N.p., 26 Mar. 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/03/part-i-rebel-loreta-janeta-velazquez-civil-war-soldier-and-spy.html


 * This is a reliable source because the Smithsonian

"UW Press - : The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier, Loreta Janeta Velazquez." //UW Press - : The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier, Loreta Janeta Velazquez//. N.p., 01 Oct. 2003. Web. 20 Apr.2016. http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2234.htm
 * This is a reliable source because a university made it.