(
June 10 ,
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. During 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 . She was given the honorary commission of Major by President Abraham Lincoln. She toured the country for a number of years, telling of her exploits. She finally settled in Casa Grande, Arizona, with her third husband, sheriff Jere Fryer. After a few years of marriage, she moved to San Francisco where she spent the last years of her life as a scrubwoman In her later life, she became ill and took opium for her illness. Then she became addicted to opium, and took her own life.
