As part of its continuing Heritage Series, Midland County Historical Society is presenting Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland on Tuesday, May 15, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The lecture, presented by ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A brief but harrowing career as a Union spy trans- formed minor actress Pauline Cushman into a major celebrity. In ...

Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, was almost hanged, was granted the rank of Major by Abraham Lincoln, and died lonely in San Francisco from an ...

Movie"An Intensely Interesting Drama of a Wonderful Woman-A Page of Reality From the Civil War-Thrilling Scenes- Escapes-Daredevil Deeds. two Reels of Superb Sensation, Built on Fact." Pauline Cushman ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1862 Pauline Cushman was a struggling actress employed in a Louisville playhouse when a new opportunity soon ...