Brevet Major Pauline Cushman-Fryer: Civil War Spy

Brevet Major Pauline Cushman-Fryer: Civil War Spy

#Disguised as a man in uniform, Pauline Cushman-Fryer left the theater stage to become a Union spy, playing the role of a lifetime in the deadly theater of war—only to be jailed and threatened with hanging.


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0h 05m 2017 HD

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 overdose of opium.


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