Loreta Janeta Velazquez: Cuban Confederate Soldier

ISBN-10: 1508185166
ISBN-13: 9781508185161
Author: Imery-Garcia, Ash
Interest Level: 5-8
Publisher: Rosen Publishing

Publication Date: August 2019

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 48

Series: Our Voices: Spanish And Latino Figures Of American History

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Interest Level

Grades 5-8

Reading Level

Guided Reading: W
Accelerated Reader Level: 8.4
Accelerated Reader Points: 1.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical

JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Description
Lieutenant Harry T. Buford was a respected Confederate soldier who fought in four major battles during the Civil War and later became a double agent spying for the Southern cause. However, Lieutenant Buford was actually Loreta Janeta Velazquez! Velazquez was a Cuban woman living in New Orleans, who disguised herself as a man in order to experience freedoms otherwise unattainable to her. This captivating book explores her unconventional life as a soldier, a spy and a Latina in the American South who lived life on her own terms.