Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Pauline Cushman (1833 - December 7, 1893), a New Orleans born actor, served as a Union spy in the American Civil War. After becoming an actor, she moved from New Orleans to New York at the age of 18. At the outbreak of the Civil War,she became a transvestite spy, discovering the battle plans of Confederate general Braxton Bragg. She was caught and sentenced to death, but escaped execution, enabling her to keep providing intelligence information to General William Rosecrans and President Abraham Lincoln. Biography from Spartacus Educational This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.