Pauline Cushman scrapbook, 1863-1869, 1893.

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Pauline Cushman scrapbook, 1863-1869, 1893.

1863-1869, 1893

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Contains mainly newspaper clippings collected by Pauline Cushman documenting her speaking engagements about her life as a Union Army spy during the American Civil War. Included are announcements, reviews, and biographical pieces. Clippings are from various state newspapers and date from 1863 to 1869, with the exception of Cushman's 1893 obituary, added posthumously. Several of the announcements advertise Cushman's appearances at P.T. Barnum's American Museum. There are three newspaper illustrations: Cushman in regular clothes and in her army uniform, Cushman in prison, and a standard portrait. Includes four clippings reporting President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and one of Jefferson Davis's "Dying Speech." Performance reviews also include those in which Cushman appeared in plays such as Inshavogue, or the Fenians of 1798, and The Married Rake. Many announcements and reviews also mention comedian James M. Ward who was double-billed with Cushman. Scrapbook contains an 1869 handwritten personal appeal from Marcellus P. Lindsay of New York asking Cushman to remember him in her will and leave her scrapbook to him.

1 v. (54 leaves): ill. ; 31 cm.

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Cushman, Pauline, 1833-1893

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Pauline Cushman, born Harriet Wood, entered the U. S. secret service following a Midwestern acting career. After the death of her husband, Charles C. Dickinson, Pauline left her two children with her in-laws to go on the Louisville stage. In April 1863, Cushman was recruited as an army detective by Col. Orlando H. Moore, the provost marshal there. In June 1863, Cushman was sent behind Confederate lines by Army Chief of Police William Truesdail in Nashville to gain information on Confederate Gene...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Ward, James M. (James Michael), 1951-

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Barnum's American Museum

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