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Federal (USV)

Private

Alfred T. Cushing

(1822 - 1891)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 40 year old shoemaker in Weymouth, MA, he enlisted 8 August and mustered as Private, Company H, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD, and was discharged for wounds on 20 February 1863.

References & notes

Basic information from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Hospital detail from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1822

Death

08/10/1891; burial in North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 690 [AotW citation 20414]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 180 [AotW citation 20415]

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