num_pages: 330
description: First Lieutenant Cushing was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the pPresident of the United States on November 6 2014 151 years after his death at the Angle at Gettysburg on July 3 1863 where he commanded Battery A Fourth United States Artillery. He is likely the last Civil War soldier to who will be so honored. Although many individuals were involved in the effort to give the Medal of Honor to Cushing this book first published in 1993 played a critical role.
language: English
title: Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander
publisher: University Press of Kentucky