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Life of Pauline Cushman, the Celebrated Union Spy and Scout ^-ents' Piiblishiii!/ Office 94 Cla)'k St., Ghicarro, 111. I want airoiits m cjvwhere ;g£££ul.ar.CariuIrw,ii'ks. , /^> OL Ov'ti-UJaJi,. 7" a.^ fi ^tt nf^^'>-v> /y&o ?y~'^ 7 Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2011 witli funding from Tlie Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant http://www.archive.org/details/lifeofpaulinecusOOsarm LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. OUB CAMPAIGNS ; or, The Marches, Bivouacs, Battles, Incidents of Camp Lifft. and History of our Regiment during its three years term of service. By E. M. Woodward, Adjutant Becond Pennsylvania Reserves. 12mo., cloth. Price $2.00. IIFE AND ADVENTTTEES OF MISS MAJOR PAULINE CUSHMAN, the celebrated Union Spy and Scout. By F. L. Sarmiento. With Por- trait and Illustrations. ]2mo., paper. Price $1. 60 j cloth, $2.00. OTJB BOYS. The Personal Experiences of a Soldier in the Army of the Pa tomac. By A. F. 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No. 617 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Fa. c- c^-^^V^G-^^-^-^.^-^^*^ ,-t^e^^^:C>^ «2<?-z- LIFE OF PAULINE CUSHMAN. CELEBRATED UNION SPY AND SCOUT. COMPKISIKO HBR EARLY HISTORY; HER ENTRY INTO THE SECRET SERVICE OF THB 1 ARMY OF THB CUMBERLAND, AND EXCITING ADVENTURES WITH THE REBEL CHIEFTAINS AND OTHERS WHILE WITHIN THB ENEMY'S LINES : TOGETHER WITH HER CAPTURE AND SENTENCE TO DEATH BY GENERAL BRAGG AND FINAL RESCUE BY THE UNION ARMY UNDER GENERAL ROSECRANS. The whole oaiefiilly prepaied from her Notes and Hemorand«. BY F. L. SARMIENTO, ESQ., HSHBER OF THB PHILADELPHIA BAB. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY JOHN E. POTTER, No. 017 SANSOH STREET. 1865. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by JOHN E. POTTER. Ib the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. DEDICATION. TO THE MOTHERS, WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS OF THE BRAVE MEN IN WHOSE BEHALF THESE ADVENTURES WERE UNDEBTAKBIC AND THROUGH WHOSE GLORIOUS INSTRUMENTALITY THEY WERE HAPPILY CONSUMMATED ; TO THOSE WHO HAVE HAD THE EARLY EDUCATIOy, THE MATURER GUIDANCE, THE LOVE AND CONFIDENCE OF THE NOBLE MEK COMPOSING THE ARMY OF THE SOUTHWEST, THIS RECITAL OF ADVENTURES, SHARED PARTLY WITH THEM, 18 RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. ; PREFACE. « » • » » The great Bebellion, which has now for nearly four years been waged with such unwavering ferocity against the legiti- mate government of the United States, amid its wonderful dis- play of gigantic enterprise and power, has been prolific of in- cidents for the historian, the poet, and the dramatist. A con- test, carried on in such stupendous proportions, and over so vast a field, arraying all the most adventurous and intrepid spirits of both North and South, in armed hostility, and ab- sorbing in the vortex of war so many fearless and energetic subjects of other nations, has enriched the pages of history with new and startling annals. The wildest and most dashing legends of the past have been well-nigh eclipsed by the realities transpiring in our own midst and almost before our very gaze ; and in a future and more peaceful age, the chronicler will revert with wonder to the every-day record of the times in which we live. Among all that these shall offer to the coming years, few will be more striking, or more picturesque, than the simple narrative of plain truth presented to the reader in this work. Previous to the arrest of Miss Cushman, vague rumors were circulated among the insurgents, that information was conveyed to General Rosecrans of all the movements of the Confederates » PREFACE. that now it was a boy, then a dashing oflBcer, and again a simple countrywoman; but all agreed that whatever passed in the rebel camp was safely reported to the enemy, and that many of their schemes were thus rendered entirely abortive. They also more than suspected that this spy had mastered all their fortifications in Middle Tennessee, and so great was their ex- ultation at the capture of our heroine, that, but for her for- tunate rescue by the Union army, nothing could have saved her from the most fearful of deaths. All the officials and soldiers of the army of the Southwest are enthusiastically fond of the " Scout of the Cumberland" their " dear Major Cushman"—as they delight in calling her. She is emphatically "the Daughter of the Regiment," and no knight in the days of chivalry ever believed more firmly in the charms of the lady whose colors he wore, and in whose honor he was ready to shiver a thousand lances, than the rank and file of that army, in the courage, the heroism, and devotion to the old flag, of her whose history we now relate. The details are given, as they were gathered, from her memo- randa, and from the hps of the subject herself; and while in some minor matters the author has gleaned his information from other sources, the main facts of the narrative are solemn truths, as received from her, and which Miss Cushman avers she at least can never forget. If the public are as deeply in- terested in its perusal, as has been the author in its prepara- tion, he feels that his labors will not have been in vain. CONTENTS. PAOI INTRODUCTION 13 CHAPTER I. HER EARLIER LIFE 19 CHAPTER II. " 24 PAULINE ; OR, THE LAUGHING BREEZE." CHAPTER III. BEHIND THE SCENES 32 CHAPTER IV. SOUTH CAROLINA AND UNCLE SAM 43 CHAPTER Y. IN THE provost-marshal's OFFICE 53 CHAPTER VI. THE REBEL TOAST 59 CHAPTER VII. MYSTERIES OP THE SECRET SERVICE 67 CHAPTER VIII. KORK TRAITORS EXPOSED 76 CHAPTER IX. 4LL ABOUT A GHOST 85 9 10 CONTENTS. CHAPTER X. FAQS NASHVILLE AND THE REBELLION 91 CHAPTER XI. THK ARMY POLICE AND ITS CHIEF 103 ^ CHAPTER XII. HER INSTRUCTIONS AND THE OATH Ill CHAPTER XIII. SENT BEYOND THE LINES 120 CHAPTER XIV. MILAM, THE SMUGGLER 129 CHAPTER XV. COLUMBIA AND THE REFUGEES 141 CHAPTER XVI. THE REBEL ENGINEER 150 CHAPTER XVII. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE 156 CHAPTER XVIII. THE SCOUT AND THE GUERILLAS 162 -CHAPTER XIX. THE PLIGHT AND THE PURSUIT 167 CHAPTER XX. THB CAPTURE AND ESCAPE 177 CHAPTER XXI. LOTB AND THE FAIR SPY 183 CONTENTS. 11 CHAPTER XXII. txax BETRAYED 189 CHAPTER XXIII. THE TEMPTATION 198 CHAPTER XXIV. m'kairy and the bushwhacker 205 CHAPTER XXV. GENERAL JOHN MORGAN 209 CHAPTER XXVI. THE DYING REBEL 217 CHAPTER XXVII. A GENERAL SKEDADDLE 223 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT 231 CHAPTER XXIX. THE LONELY FARMHOUSE 239 CHAPTER XXX. BECAFTUBED BY REBEL SCOUTS , 243 CHAPTER XXXL BEFORE GENERAL FORREST 251 CHAPTER XXXII. ^ KIQHT IN CAMP 257 CHAPTER XXXIII. TBB BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRACK 264 12 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXIV. BEFORE GENERAL BRAGG 270 CHAPTER XXXV. GENERAL BRAGG AND THE FAIR SPY.. 28Q CHAPTER XXXVI. THE FACES OF THE DEAD 286 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE REBEL PROVOST-MARSHAL 292 CHAPTER XXXVIII. '. THE NEGRO KIDNAPPER . 297 CHAPTER XXXIX. THE FEARFUL SUSPENSE 312 CHAPTER XL. SENTENCED TO BE HUNG 319 CHAPTER XLI. LOVE IN A PRISON 325 CHAPTER XLII. SAVED AT LAST 333 CHAPTER XLIII. NASHVILLE AND PROMOTION 342 CHAPTER XLIV. THB POISONED CAKE 347 CHAPTER XLV. tOUCHINO INCIDENTS 353 CHAPTER XLVI. OONCLDSION 368 INTRODUCTION. The career of tlie subject of this work, the beautiful and accomplished Miss Pauline Cushman, or " Major" Cushman, as she is entitled to be called, and most generally is called, is one so varied by patriotic inci- dent and stirring adventure, that the ear of young or old can never become satiated by its recital. Since the days of the Maid of Saragossa, no woman has ever lived who has so completely come up to the ideal of a heroine, as Miss Pauline Cushman. Dashing, charm- ing, fearless, yet lady-like, she combines in herself all the daring of the soldier with the tenderness and modesty of the woman.
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