Brevet Major Pauline Cushman-Fryer
Women in the Military: Season I - Warriors
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TV-PG, 01-Jun-2017
Directed by Allyce Ondricka
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.
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