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Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War

At the outset of the American Civil War, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, an educated Cuban-born teenager, fought as an officer in the battle of First Bull Run, was wounded at Shiloh, and served as a secret agent for the Confederacy. By 1863, Velazquez was spying for the Union. She chafed against the gender and race restrictions of her time, and her 1876 memoir, A Woman in Battle, caused a sensation.
53min2013
X-Ray16+
Documentary·Edifying·Understated
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Content advisory
Violencesmoking
Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
María Agui Carter
Producers
María Agui CarterCalvin A. Lindsay Jr.
Starring
Llewellyn SmithRomi DiasIsabel Taysin Carter
Studio
PBS
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