Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-10

| paroled Confederate officers who made
| the place their temporary home. One
| of these gentlemen, with a view to
| making a sensation and engering the
| loyal residents, dared the popular act
| ress to drink toast to Jefferson Davis
| in one of the scenes of the Seven Sis
| ters," the play then on the boards, and
she gave him her word that she
! would.
All over the town the news spread,
and on the appointed night the theatre
was packed with both friends and
foes of the Confederacy, all eager to
see if the programme would be carried
| out.
The play went on smoothly and
| quietly until the fateful moment came.
| Then, with brilliant flashing eyes and
| a smile that was scornfully triumphant,
albeit she was more than trif1e pale
behind the rouge that she had thought
best to wear for this one night, Miss
I Cushman advanced to the front of the
stage and raising a wine glass on high
| in her slender hand, said clearly, de-
| liberately and defiantly: Here's to
Jefferson Davis and the Southern Con-
| federacy. May the South always main
| tain her honor and her rights
That night Pauline was discharged
from the company, and the next day
| she was the idol of every Southerner
who heard the story. Every door and
every heart was open to her. No one
save the actress herself and those under
whose orders she was working knew
! that previous to that sensational cpl
| sode in Louisville she had made a con-
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shall of the district, convinced him of
her stanch loyalty, taken the oath OF
| allegiance and entered the secret SER
vice Of the United States.
All the while that she was being en-
! tertained by Southern admirers she was
gaining from them information as to
how they managed to send supplies
| across the lines, the practices of the
guerillas, the plans of the army, the
\ names of those most inimical to the
! government. The Southerners kept no
secrets from her, since they believed
her fully in accord with th:m, and the
knowledge which she gained was al
! most invaluable to the army at that
| time.
Her thorough familiarity with the
! roads and the different localities in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Misois-
! sippi and Alabama made her services
as scout most important, and her I'M
| faltering bravery and unfiinching devo-
ton to what she thought her duty made
! her seem almost a second Joan Of
Arc to her comrades in arms.
| Her adventures were numerous and
! exciting, but her histriolic ability and
| training stood her in good siead manv
times. Her narrow escapes were many
but perhaps the IalIowest was when
| she was captured by the famous guer-
lila, John Morgan. Not wishing to take
the responsibility of deciding upon her
case he concluded to turn hei over TO
General McKinstry, the provost mar
shall, and she was sent to the head
| quarters of General Bragg known be-
cause of his wiry, angular physique and
! his cold, reserved, unimp:essionable
manner, as least iron BragS."
Beauty in distress had nc effect on
this stern martinez. A spy was a spy,
/ whether in petticoats or trousers, and
whether handsome or ugly He put
the fair captive through searching
crcss-examination, then tried ner By
court-martal and sentenced her to be
hanged
To the fact that the excitement and
anxiety which she experienced made her
| too i'll to rise from the rough pallet in
her prison she owed the preservation of
her life. Her case seriously puzzled the
skilled physician called in to diagnose 1t;
her captors were beginning to suspect
that she was quite well enough to be
| hanged if she wanted to be when Cen
eral Rosecrans' advance guard came rat
Ting into town and restored her to
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
| ness
| After that she was a little more eau
| tious than she had been previously, and
although she was wounded twice, once
so seriously that she never fully recov-
/ cred from the effects of 1t up to the time
| of her death she was never again cap
tured by the enemy. She served faith
/ fully up to the end of the war. and the
soldiers of General Rosecrans' COM
mand fairly worshipped her.
Fate was not kind to her in the long
years that interviewed between those days
of brave exploit and the dreary December
| day in 1890, which saw her laid to rest
| Though never Adequately rewarded for
her heroic services she flowed her ccun-
try to the last, unselhsl1iy and truly. It
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