L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion

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[109] the recognition of the Confederacy, etc., and also a certain Captain Denver, alias Conklin, Miss Cushman most successfully “gammoned” some of the leading secessionists of Louisville, especially a Mrs. Ford, and placed a very effectual embargo on a large amount of quinine, morphine, and other medicines, which were in transit to the rebel army.

In course of time, Mr. J. R. Allen, of the new theatre of Nashville, Tenn., arrived at Louisville, engaged in looking up a good company of actors, and meeting with Mr. Wood of the Louisville theatre, was recommended to secure Miss Cushman. “She is a good looking woman, and an accomplished actress, but she will talk ‘secesh.’ If you can only keep her out of the provost-marshal's hands, you will make a good thing, for she will be popular at once,” said Mr. Wood. So the proposition was made to Pauline, and, after advising with the military authorities, under whose guidance she was acting, she determined to accept it. Of course, in order to maintain her assumed part, the authorities had to refuse her a “pass,” and her only way, therefore, to get out of Louisville, was to “run the blockade.” Proceeding, at the appointed time, to the cars, she got a “secesh” gentleman, going to Nashville, to attend to her trunk; then she requested leave of the guard, at the door of the car, to speak to a friend inside, “only for one minute.” Her woman's face prevailed, he let her pass, and she took pains to stay within the car. When the officer of the guard came around to inspect the passes, she had a “made up story” all ready, at the same time showing her order from Mr. Allen to report herself immediately at his theatre. He hesitated, but her pleasing