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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Alvin D. Cushing

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old cooper in Addison, Oakland County, MI. He enlisted in Company H, Seventh Michigan Infantry on 12 August 1861, at Oxford. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 January 1862.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, with no further record, but was probably killed there.

The rest of the War

His son Edwin was granted a minor dependent's pension in November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from the State of Michigan.1 Personal details from family genealogists, who have his death at Antietam, and the US Census of 1860.

He married Malissa Bates (1834-) in July 1855 and they had a son Edwin.

Birth

c. 1836 in NY

Death

098/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pp. 25 - 37 [AotW citation 12037]

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