Brevet Major Pauline Cushman-Fryer

Pauline Cushman played the role of a lifetime, but first, she had to get kicked

Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, got caught and was almost hanged, why Abraham Lincoln granted her the rank of Major, and how she died lonely in San Francisco from an overdose of opium.