Pauline Cushman:  Actress, Spy.  Born in New Orleans, she moved to New York City at 18 to be a stage actress.  While touring in Kentucky she pretended to be a Southern sympathizer but was in reality a commissioned Union spy rendering valuable intelligence to the Federal army.  Captured and sentenced to death, before the sentence could be carried out Major Cushman was rescued by Union troops.  CDV ca. 1864-65, published by E.&H.T. Anthony, New York. 
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