Lindy Blalock 1842 - 1901 26th North Carolina Infantry C.S.A. 10th Michigan Cavalry U.S.A.

"So your great-great-grandmother was a cross-dressing woman warrior?"

Yes.                                                                                                    

     My mother's mother's father's mother, Lindy Blalock, served in the Confederate Army as Private Sam Blalock, along-side her husband, William McKeeson Blalock, known as Keith. They later served as scouts for the Union Army in the mountains between Tennessee and North Carolina, thus constituting ironic paradgims for the experieces of many people in Border States during the conflict popularly known as The Civil War.

      Their oldest son was my mother's mother's father, Columbus Millard Blalock.

You can read more about Lindy and her husband:

"Malinda Blalock" in Wikipedia (not a particularly accurate article) "Malinda Blalock" at the North Carolina Museum of History   Mitchell County, North Carolina History and at various other sites that come up on Google searchs

In fiction, there are two books currently in print: Ghost Riders, by Sharyn McCrumb (2003)                  Lindy is one of the narrators of this novel. Rebels in Blue: The Story of Keith and Malinda Blalock, by Peter F. Stevens (2000) There is also a perfectly gruesome roman a clef that is mercifully out of print: The Grandfather and the Globe, by B. Dell (1969) see also Sharyn McCrumb's website:      Ghost Riders