Alternate Designations: Morgan’s.
Commander: Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing (Jan. 19, 1841-July 3, 1863), killed; Sgt. William F. Fuger (1836-1913).
Numbers: 6 Ordnance Rifles; 129 men. 6 killed, 32 wounded.
Raised: Most men at Gettysburg were volunteers from the 4th Ohio Infantry.
Erected between 1907 and 1908.
Location: Located west side Hancock Avenue at The Angle. Locates position occupied by Cushing’s Battery during Battle of Gettysburg.
Description: One of 45 monuments erected to units of the United States regular army on the battlefield. A red polished Jonesboro granite monolith that is set upon a concrete foundation with a descriptive 3’6’x3’7′ bronze tablet with the coat of arms of the United States in bronze.
Inscription reads:
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
SECOND CORPS
ARTILLERY BRIGADE
BATTERY A FOURTH U. S. ARTILLERY
Six 3 Inch Rifles
Lieut. Alonzo H. Cushing and Sergt. Frederick Fuger Commanding
July 2. Arrived and took position with the brigade of Brig. General A. S. Webb Second Division Second Corps and took part in the artillery engagements during the day.
July 3. Engaged in the repulse of Longstreet’s assault and lost all its officers killed or wounded and all the guns but one and all its horses but three were disabled. Lieut. Cushing was killed while firing the last shot from the only effective gun. After the repulse of Longstreet’s assault the Battery was withdrawn.
Casualties Killed 1 Officer and 5 Men Wounded 1 Officer and 31 Men
