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The Cuban Woman Soldier of The U.S. Civil War

By yayo in Weapons & War on Mar 24, 2008 at 3:01 am


We had a story about military doctor James Barry turning out to be a woman before, but apparently that wasn’t the only case of military gender switcharoo. Here’s the story of Loretta Janeta Velasquez, a Cuban-born woman who masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War: Link | More info in Wikipedia.


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