{"id":1414,"date":"2010-05-21T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:46:52","slug":"lt-alonzo-cushing-awarded-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/05\/21\/lt-alonzo-cushing-awarded-medal-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Alonzo Cushing Awarded  Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32412\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1415\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"Alonzo Cushing\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/HD_cushingAHc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who died on July 3, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg, will be awarded the Meadal of Honor for his actions during that battle. As the Associated Press explains, Lt. Cushing \u201ccommanded about 110 men and six cannons\u201d and this \u201csmall force\u2026. stood their ground under artillery bombardment as nearly 13,000 Confederate infantrymen waited to advance.\u201d  Lt. Cushing served in Battery A, 4th Artillery, United States Army. You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_civil_war_medal_of_honor\" target=\"_blank\">the full article here<\/a>. Also,both <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32412\" target=\"_blank\">Alonzo Cushing<\/a> and his brother (<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32414\" target=\"_blank\">William B. Cushing<\/a>) have profiles on House Divided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Alonzo Cushing, who died on July 3, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg, will be awarded the Meadal of Honor for his actions during that battle. As the Associated Press explains, Lt. Cushing \u201ccommanded about 110 men and six cannons\u201d and this \u201csmall force\u2026. stood their ground under artillery bombardment as nearly 13,000 Confederate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-recent-news","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}