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Alonzo Hereford Cushing (January 19, 1841 – July 3, 1863) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge .
Brown, Kent M. Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky), 1993. ISBN 0-8131-1837-9; Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H ...
Webb placed the two remaining guns of (the severely wounded) Lt. Alonzo Cushing's Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery, at the front of his line at the stone fence, with the 69th and 71st Pennsylvania regiments of his brigade to defend the fence and the guns. The two guns and 940 men could not match the massive firepower that Hays' division, to their ...
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Cushing saw action during the Battle of Hampton Roads and at Fort Fisher, [3] among many others. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1862, and to commander in 1872. [4] Two of his brothers died in uniform, Alonzo H. Cushing in the Battle of Gettysburg, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor, [5] and Howard B. Cushing, while fighting the Chiricahua Apaches in 1871. [6]
The Alonzo Cushing Marker indicates the "spot where Lt. Alonzo Cushing was mortally wounded" [4] [5] The 1887 Lewis A. Armistead Marker [ 6 ] marks the spot where Confederate General Lewis Armistead placed his hand on a Union cannon before collapsing with mortal wounds. [ 7 ]