| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Soldier Princess: The Life & Legend of Agnes Salm-Salm in North America, 1861–1867. By David Coffey. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xx, 129 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-168-6.)

According to David Coffey, "even if many of the exploits and honors attributed to her never came to pass, or did so in a less spectacular fashion than she recalled," Agnes Salm-Salm "lived a remarkable life" (p. ix). I agree. Indeed, reading Salm-Salm's story, as told by Coffey in his slender but nicely written Soldier Princess, I was reminded of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who in 1876 published a book called The Woman in Battle; it was in fact a highly romanticized representation of her life and particularly her experiences while serving under cover as a soldier in the Confederate army.

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