Alonzo Cushing
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Lt. Alonzo Cushing (January 19, 1841 - July 3, 1863); a graduate of West Point class of 1861, he commanded Battery A of the 4th US Artillery at The Battle of Gettysburg during The American Civil War. Hailed as heroic in his actions defending against Pickett's Charge on the third day of the battle, despite being horrifically wounded. He died on the field at the height of the assault as the advancing ranks of The Army of Northern Virginia reached the the opposing lines of The Army of the Potomac amassed along Cemetery Ridge.
His body was returned to his family and then interred in The West Point Cemetery in Section 26, Row A, Grave 7. His headstone bears, at the behest of his mother, the inscription “Faithful until Death.”
[edit] Further Reading
- Brown, Kent Masterson, Cushing of Gettysburg, University Press of Kentucky, 1993, ISBN 0-8131-1837-9
