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The Lady in Gray

By Bill Sasser
Gambit | October 25, 2004
The cross-dressing Confederate soldier Loreta Janeta Velazquez, aka Lt. Harry Buford, is receiving renewed attention from historians and is the subject of an upcoming documentary.
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Tags: military, Civil War, history, South, gender, Southern, Confederacy, Confederate

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