00:15 - WHO PORTRAYS MAJOR POLLING

00:17 - CUSHMAN WITH THE CONFEDERATION

00:18 - OF UNION GENERALS.

00:20 - >>WHO IS MAJOR POLLING

00:21 - CHRISTMAS.

00:22 - >>WELL MAJOR POLLING CUSHMAN IS

00:24 - WHITE D A

00:26 - WOMAN OF THE 19TH CENTURY, SHE

00:29 - WAS A UNION SPY.

00:31 - FORMERLY IN AFTER US THAT'S HOW

00:33 - SHE KIND OF GOT STARTED OUT SHE

00:35 - GOT INTO ACTING WHEN SHE

00:37 - WAS 18 AND SHE ACTED INTO THE

00:41 - WARRIORS OF COURSE AND. SHE WAS

00:44 - QUITE POPULAR.

00:47 - AND A COUPLE

00:49 - PAROLED CONFEDERATES DOWN IN

00:52 - KENTUCKY HAD MADE AN OFFER

00:53 - TO HER. THEY'RE GOING TO PAY

00:55 - HER $300 IF SHE WOULD TOAST

00:57 - JEFFERSON DAVIS AND SHE WENT TO

01:01 - THE LOCAL.

01:04 - PROVOST AND TOLD HIM THEY SAID

01:06 - WELL WHY DID HE DO

01:07 - THAT AND THAT WE CAN FIND OUT

01:09 - WHO THE CONFEDERATE

01:09 - SYMPATHIZERS OR AND SHE DID AND

01:12 - SHE LOST HER JOB WAS

01:13 - IMMEDIATELY FIRED. AND THEN SHE

01:16 - DECIDED

01:18 - YOU KNOW BACK AND SAY WELL YOU

01:19 - KNOW I DID THIS FOR YOU GUYS

01:20 - KNOW I LOST MY JOB AND HE SAID

01:21 - WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB, 40 SO THEY

01:23 - EMPLOY HER AS A SPY

01:25 - FOR THE UNION ARMY DOWN IN THE

01:26 - WESTERN THEATERS.

01:28 - >>SHE DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME

01:29 - HIGH PROFILE SOME OF MORE

01:32 - PROMINENT GENERALS AND HOW DID

01:33 - YOU RESEARCH FOR FOR A PERSON

01:34 - LIKE THIS.

01:35 - >>WHY A LOT.

01:38 - >>OF PRIMARY SOURCES.

01:41 - SHE LIVED IN ARIZONA FOR A

01:42 - WHILE AFTER

01:43 - THE WAR AND I CAN I CONTACT

01:46 - LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

01:48 - WHERE SHE LIVED.

01:50 - ALSO THERE'S A LOT THE LIBRARY

01:53 - OF AND I'M ALWAYS JUST

01:56 - YOU KNOW LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT

01:58 - SHOULD THAT'S ON HER.

02:00 - SHE WAS CONNECTED WAS A VERY

02:01 - PROMINENT PEOPLE JAMES GARFIELD

02:03 - GENERAL AND LATER PRESIDENT.

02:05 - PRESIDENT LINCOLN ACTUALLY FOR

02:07 - HER SERVICE AS A SPY STILL THE

02:08 - RANK OF MAJOR IN THE UNION ARMY

02:10 - TO HER. SO SHE DID HAVE SOME

02:12 - PRETTY HIGH-PROFILE CONNECTIONS

02:13 - SO IF YOU GO TO THOSE FOLKS IN

02:16 - RESEARCH YOU CAN FIND A LINK TO

02:17 - HER SO I'D LIKE TO DO A LOT OF

02:19 - PRIMARY SOURCES.

02:21 - FROM HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AND

02:22 - THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY WONDERFUL

02:24 - IN HELPING ME OUT.

02:25 - >>HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A

02:26 - LIVING HISTORY PERFORMER.

02:28 - >>2 YEARS ACTUALLY.

02:30 - >>HOW DID YOU GET INTO IT.

02:32 - >>WINE ALWAYS LOVED A CIVIL WAR

02:35 - MY MOM GAVE ME A BOOK WHEN I

02:37 - WAS ABOUT 8 YEARS OLD.

02:38 - WE IN BRITAIN AT MAX, AND I GOT

02:40 - HOOKED. AND THROUGH OVER THE

02:43 - YEARS MY A INTEREST RATE

02:45 - OF PASSION AND I CONNECTED WITH

02:48 - SOME FOLKS THAT

02:50 - ENDED UP BEING A CONSIDERATION,

02:51 - THE GENERALS THROUGH SOME CIVIL

02:53 - WAR GROUPS ONLINE

02:55 - AND I WAS DOING ACTUALLY SOME

02:57 - PHOTOGRAPHY WORKS FOR THEM

02:59 - THEN I WAS SAYING WILL LIKELY

03:01 - TO GET INTO THIS AND

03:03 - WE WERE MY FRIEND THAT RAISE

03:05 - GENERAL HANCOCK AND I WERE KIND

03:07 - OF TOSSING AROUND SOME IDEAS

03:09 - AND NAME POPPED INTO OUR HEADS

03:11 - FALLING CUSHMAN.

03:13 - AND THAT'S HOW I KIND OF GOT

03:15 - INVOLVED

03:17 - I APPLIED FOR THE GROUP AND

03:19 - WETTER A COUPLE INTERVIEWS AND

03:20 - HE RAN.

03:22 - >>WHAT IS THE THING THAT YOU

03:23 - LIKE MOST ABOUT PORTRAYING HER.

03:26 - >>I THINK THE MOST I LIKE ABOUT

03:27 - THE TRAIN. HER HER AND I ARE

03:28 - VERY SIMILAR PERSONALITIES IN

03:30 - THE RESEARCH THAT I FAT.

03:32 - SO WHEN I STEPPED INTO HER ROLE

03:34 - AND REALLY TRYING TO PLAY NIGHT

03:36 - AND SENSE OF MYSELF PRETTY MUCH

03:38 - HER AND I HAVE A LOT IN COMMON

03:39 - AND WHAT I LIKE DOING IS

03:40 - BRINGING ABOUT HER STORY

03:43 - TO MANY PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT KNOW

03:44 - WHO SHE IS OR WHAT SHE DID HER

03:47 - SERVICE TO HER COUNTRY.

03:49 - THAT'S WHAT I LIKE AND SHE

03:50 - DEFINITELY WASN'T THE TYPICAL

03:52 - FEMALE OF THE 19TH CENTURY SHE

03:53 - WAS. MOSTLY YOU KNOW DRINKING

03:56 - WHISKEY WITH

03:57 - THE GUY AND SHE WAS A BARTENDER

03:59 - SALOON AT HER AND HER HUSBAND

04:01 - OWN. SHE WAS BREAKING OF

04:02 - GUNFIGHTS AFTER THE WAR IN

04:04 - ARIZONA, SO SHE WAS JUST

04:06 - PLAYING CARDS AND EVERYTHING SO

04:08 - SOMETHING I LIKE TO DO.

04:10 - SHE DID SO THAT'S WHY I HAVE

04:12 - THIS REALLY GOOD CONNECTION

04:13 - WITH HER.

04:14 - >>HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR POOR

04:16 - PERFORMANCE STATES THAT DOESN'T

04:18 - TAKE SEVERAL HOURS TO CAN GET

04:19 - YOURSELF INTO THE CHARACTER.

04:22 - >>I ALWAYS LIKE TO GO BACK AND

04:24 - REVIEW RESEARCH IN NOTES.

04:27 - IT ALSO DEPENDS ON WHERE WE'RE

04:28 - GOING TO BE ADDING A PROGRAM TO

04:30 - BUY ALSO

04:31 - LIKE TO AND KNOWLEDGE OF SAY

04:33 - THE BATTLE, YOU KNOW FOR AT

04:35 - GETTYSBURG I'D LIKE TO BE WELL

04:36 - VERSED IN THE BATTLE BECAUSE

04:37 - PEOPLE ALSO NOT ONLY ASK ME

04:39 - QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BUT THE

04:40 - LAST QUESTIONS ABOUT SAY

04:42 - GETTYSBURG OR SOMETHING I

04:44 - ALWAYS LIKE REVIEW, MY NOTES.

04:46 - I KIND OF JUST GOES THROUGH YOU

04:49 - KNOW JUST PLAYING THE ROLE OF

04:54 - YOU KNOW YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW

04:55 - WHAT'S GOING TO GET ASKED AT

04:57 - AN EVENT. SOME PEOPLE WILL COME

04:59 - OUT WITH QUESTIONS AND YOU

05:02 - NEVER REALLY CAN PREPARE.

05:05 - I THINK SO THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I

05:07 - DO AND I ALSO JUST GETTING INTO

05:09 - THE MINDSET OF GOING BACK INTO

05:11 - THE 19TH CENTURY.

05:14 - REALLY JUST

05:15 - INTERACTING WITH MY FELLOW OF

05:16 - THE HISTORIANS AND ALSO THE

05:18 - PUBLIC THAT COMES.

05:20 - >>WHEN JOHANNA AND IS LIVING

05:21 - HISTORY PERFORMER WHO PORTRAYS

05:23 - MAJOR POLLEN CUSHMAN

05:24 - WITH THE CONFEDERATION OF UNION

05:26 - GENERAL THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING

05:27 - WITH ME.

05:28 - >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.