Nov 27 , 2025
Blood and iron, sweat and grit — on July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, a young artillery officer stared death in the eye and spat defiance. Mortally wounded yet unyielding, Alonzo Cushing manned his batt...
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Nov 24 , 2025
The air thickened with smoke and sweat. Nine guns lined Cemetery Ridge, but as Confederate troops surged, only one man stood unbowed—artillery captain Alonzo Cushing. Wounded again, bleeding from ...
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Nov 23 , 2025
Alonzo Cushing’s fingers clenched the cold metal of his artillery piece as musket balls and cannon fire ripped through the summer air. Blood pooled at his feet. Every breath was a battle. Yet the g...
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Nov 20 , 2025
The enemy swarmed the ridge. Smoke and fury choked the air. Alonzo Cushing lay shattered among his guns, his blood soaked the ground beneath him, but still, the cannons roared. Even death could not...
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Nov 19 , 2025
Cannons roared through smoke so thick you could taste the fear. Amid the chaos of Gettysburg’s third day, Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing stood his ground at Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery. Wounded three ...
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Nov 18 , 2025
Bloodied and breathless, cannon smoke choking the air, Alonzo Cushing knelt amidst a shattered field. His artillery battery pinned beneath a hail of Confederate fire. Bullets bit flesh. Bones ...
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