Mike Serpa
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I got a request in the Chat Room to do a Before & After. It caught me off guard.
Alonzo Hersford Cushing (January 19, 1841 – July 3, 1863) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge. Action has been undertaken to award him the Medal of Honor; as of December 2013, more than 150 years after his death, the nomination has been approved by the United States Congress, and now awaits review by the Defense Department and the President.
more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Cushing
From the New York State Military Museum. Note - incorrect identification.
LOC photo - Lt. Rufus King, Lt. Alonzo Cushing [standing middle], Lt. Evan Thomas and three other artillery officers in front of tent, Antietam, Md. 1862
LOC photo - Topographical engineers at Headquarters, Army of Potomac, in front of Yorktown, Va. [Cushing, standing far right next to Allan Pinkerton. Identities from waroftherebellion.com]
LOC photo- Gen. Edwin V. Sumner and staff Warrenton, VA 1862
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863. Left to right: Capt. W. G. Jones, Maj. Laurence Kip, A.D.C., Lt. Col. Joseph H. Taylor, A.A.C., Gen. Sumner, Capt. J. M. Garland, Chief of Ambulances, Capt. Samuel S. Sumner, A.D.C., Alonzo Herford Cushing, Lt. Col. W. W. Teall.
Edit: forgot this 1861 West Point photo.
Alonzo Hersford Cushing (January 19, 1841 – July 3, 1863) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge. Action has been undertaken to award him the Medal of Honor; as of December 2013, more than 150 years after his death, the nomination has been approved by the United States Congress, and now awaits review by the Defense Department and the President.
more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Cushing
From the New York State Military Museum. Note - incorrect identification.
LOC photo - Lt. Rufus King, Lt. Alonzo Cushing [standing middle], Lt. Evan Thomas and three other artillery officers in front of tent, Antietam, Md. 1862
LOC photo - Topographical engineers at Headquarters, Army of Potomac, in front of Yorktown, Va. [Cushing, standing far right next to Allan Pinkerton. Identities from waroftherebellion.com]
LOC photo- Gen. Edwin V. Sumner and staff Warrenton, VA 1862
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863. Left to right: Capt. W. G. Jones, Maj. Laurence Kip, A.D.C., Lt. Col. Joseph H. Taylor, A.A.C., Gen. Sumner, Capt. J. M. Garland, Chief of Ambulances, Capt. Samuel S. Sumner, A.D.C., Alonzo Herford Cushing, Lt. Col. W. W. Teall.
Edit: forgot this 1861 West Point photo.
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