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Loreta had a grudge against the USA because her father had lost his farm in Mexico on account of the War of 1846. When the Civil War started, her husband volunteered to fight with the Confederates, but did not allow her to do the same. So she acquired a uniform and joined up in disguise under a man's identity.
If her memoirs are to be believed, she then saw action at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, being eventually unmasked by a Doctor Who examined her after being wounded. Her accounts of life in a front-line infantry battalion do not carry conviction, and have generally been dismissed as fiction.
However, her later adventures as a spy in Washington sound much more believable. She specialised in using her charms to play on the vanity of pompous Generals and politicians, and we are reminded just how little secrecy there was in Civil War intelligence circles.
At all events, her book is one of the best of all the Civil War Memoirs, and whatever her talents, she certainly knew how to write - whether history or fiction we shall never know.
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