Pauline Cushman was an American actress, and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Pauline wrote that she was born in New Orleans.There is no evidence that she was born in Louisiana. Her family's presence can be documented to Michigan in 1834 when her brother, William, was born. At the age of eighteen she decided she should go to New York to become an actress. She pursued the craft mainly in the South with little success. She did meet and also married a musician named Charles Dickinson in New Orleans, however. She went to live with Charles Dickinson's family in Cleveland, where they had two children, Charles and Ida. Her husband...more »