Pauline Cushman was an actress who became a celebrated spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a hotel proprietress, the wife of a sheriff and in the end, a poor scrubwoman.
During her heyday, Pauline was toasted nationwide as “The Scout of the Cumberland.” President Abraham Lincoln said she had “done more to earn the title than many a man who wore the shoulder straps of major during the wa
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