BREVET MAJOR PAULINE CUSHMAN-FRYER: CIVIL WAR SPY

2017

5 min.

en

Original Title

Brevet Major Pauline Cushman-Fryer: Civil War Spy

Overview

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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