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- Tags: Civil War
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 5-6, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mr. Danop, Oct 16, 1863
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, June 27-29, 1863
Tags: Civil War, gossip--unpublished, press coverage, Rome
"Military Appointment Politics," Trenton State Gazette, Apr 18, 1864
Tags: Civil War
Greenwood Lecture, National Anti-Slavery Standard, May 7, 1864
Tags: Civil War
"Personal," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 26 1864
Tags: Civil War
"Grace Greenwood," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 24, 1863
Tags: Civil War
Record of the Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission Held at New York in April 1864
Charlotte Cushman to [William H. Seward], Tuesday, July 09, 1861 (West Point appointment)
Tags: Civil War, social capital
Sanitary Commission Performance, Sept 12, 1863
Tags: Civil War, press coverage, travel/touring
Excerpts from Fanny Seward's Diary, 1863-1864, Cushman mentions
Tags: admirers, Civil War, social capital
Emma Crow Cushman's Memoir about Charlotte Cushman: "A Memory" (1918)
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, June 30, 1863
Tags: Civil War, social capital
Letter from Frederick William Seward to Frances Miller Seward, Oct 18, 1863
"Our Sanitary Fair in Rome," The Methodist, Apr 2, 1864
Tags: Civil War, press coverage, public image (active), Rome
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 22, 1864
Charlotte Cushman and the Sanitary Commission, The New York Times, August 13, 1864
Clarke's The Elder and the Younger Booth (1882)
Tags: Civil War, press coverage, travel/touring
Excerpts from Brander Matthews's Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries (1900)
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow, March 13, 1862
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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…