Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
Maj Pauline Cushman / Spy & Scout is autographed beneath a civilian portrait on the obverse. The reverse carries an E. & H. T. Anthony, New York backmark and an imprint reading "Miss Major Pauline Cushman, The Union Spy and Scout, who was captured and sentenced to death as a Federal Spy, and was rescued at Shelbyville by the Union Army under Gen. Rosecrans." Cushman, a popular actress, easily adapted the cloak and dagger world of spycraft. She later capitalized on her war experiences in association with P. T. Barnum. VG. PAULINE CUSHMAN (Born Harriet Wood) (1833 - 1897). American Actress and a Spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Major Cushman's remains now rest in the Officer's Circle at the Presidio's National Cemetery in San Francisco. Her simple gravestone reads, "Pauline C. Fryer, Union Spy."
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