Writer Johnny Diaz recently wrote a wonderful article on the cover of the Living/Arts section of the BOSTON GLOBE. See: http://www.boston.com/yourlife/articles/2006/08/22/stealth_fighter/?page=full:
From the article:
"This is not just a great adventure story. It's also a story about the politics of how you remember history," Carter says during an interview at Lincoln Street Coffee in Newton Highlands. "It's a way to examine why you have this absence of this woman and so many other Latinas in history. It's a detective story. Who was she?"
Clothes make the man
Velazquez was born in 1842 near Havana, the daughter of a Spanish government official working in Cuba. In her early teens, she was sent to school in New Orleans, where she was educated in English, Spanish, and French. She eventually eloped with an officer in the US Army in 1856. They married and had three children, all of whom died young.
She talked her husband into renouncing his commission and joining the Confederate army, something she wanted to do herself instead of staying home. She paid a tailor to make her a soldier's uniform, donned a man's wig and a fake mustache and beard, and transformed herself into Buford.
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-The REBEL Staff
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