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- Tags: Civil War
"Grace Greenwood," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 24, 1863
Tags: Civil War
"Military Appointment Politics," Trenton State Gazette, Apr 18, 1864
Tags: Civil War
"Our Sanitary Fair in Rome," The Methodist, Apr 2, 1864
Tags: Civil War, press coverage, public image (active), Rome
"Personal," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 26 1864
Tags: Civil War, travel/touring
Charlotte Cushman and the Sanitary Commission, The New York Times, August 13, 1864
Charlotte Cushman to [William H. Seward], Tuesday, July 09, 1861 (West Point appointment)
Tags: Civil War, social capital
Clarke's The Elder and the Younger Booth (1882)
Tags: Civil War, press coverage, travel/touring
Cobbe's Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People and Places in Italy (1864)
Emma Crow Cushman's Memoir about Charlotte Cushman: "A Memory" (1918)
Excerpt from Louisa Drew's Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew (1899)
Excerpts from Brander Matthews's Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries (1900)
Excerpts from Fanny Seward's Diary, 1863-1864, Cushman mentions
Tags: admirers, Civil War, social capital
Greenwood Lecture, National Anti-Slavery Standard, May 7, 1864
Tags: Civil War
Howe's Memories of a Hostess (1922)
James Parton's Eminent Women of the Age (1869)
John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, June 27-29, 1863
Tags: Civil War, gossip--unpublished, press coverage, Rome
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Annie Fields, [1865]
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 5-6, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 22, 1864
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Charlotte Cushman
Charlotte Cushman becomes widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as the first successful US-American actress. Earlier, she was a singer under the tutelage of James G. Maeder, married to actress Clara Fisher, in Boston. Charlotte has been the sole financial support of her mother since her father…