In 1846 she went to the Netherlands, taking an English company, with whom she acted at Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague, and, in Germany, at Hamburg and Hanover, receiving adulation, acclamation and adoration.

Her father died at Cincinnati, Ohio on July 5, 1851, and, in the following year, she went once more to England, there to settle the affairs of her parents’ estate and to study for the next dramatic season.

Her married life was happy, but brief; her husband, by then a brigadier general during the Civil War, died of pneumonia in camp on March 3, 1862, after his requests for medical leave were ignored.

[2] For two years, Jean Lander subsequently served as a supervisor in charge of the nurses working in the Union Army hospitals at Beaufort, South Carolina.

On April 19, 1861, at approximately midnight — when Washington, D.C., was expecting the Confederate Army to invade at any moment — Jean Davenport Lander knocked on the door of the White House.

She met with John Hay, Lincoln's assistant secretary, and told him she'd heard from a Virginian that he and several other men "would do a thing within forty-eight hours that would ring throughout the world."

[3] On February 5, 1865, Jean Davenport Lander reappeared, acting at Niblo's Garden Theatre, New York, in a drama called Mésalliance.