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Cushing, Alonzo Hereford
Life span
01/19/1841—
07/03/1863
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Life Summary
Full name
Alonzo Hereford Cushing
Place of Birth
Delafield, WI
Burial Place
West Point Cemetery, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
9
No. of Spouses
0
Family
Milton Buckingham Cushing (father), Mary Barker Smith Cushing (mother), William Barker Cushing (brother)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Events
Date
Event
12/12/1860
Midshipman William Barker Cushing writes of "the huge weight of the crisis" on the U.S. Naval Academy
07/03/1863
Lee's attack on the Union center ends with the failure of Pickett's Charge
Documents
Subject
Date
Title
07/06/1863
New York Times, “Details From Our Special Correspondent,” July 6, 1863
Images
Alonzo Hereford Cushing, circa 1862
Alonzo Hereford Cushing, circa 1862, detail
Alonzo Hereford Cushing, detail
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 12:09pm — osborne