1st Lt. Alonzo Cushing (center, back row) with other officers at Antietam, Maryland, in 1862. He died at Gettysburg in July 1863.
151 Years Later, Medal of Honor For Alonzo Cushing, Civil War Hero -- CNN
(CNN) -- "Faithful unto death."
Those words on the West Point headstone of 1st Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing succinctly enshrine the determination of the man who helped turn the tide at Gettysburg during the Civil War.
Despite two severe wounds, Cushing, 22, stayed at his post and directed artillery fire upon hordes of Confederates charging the center of the Union line at Cemetery Ridge -- a doomed assault known as Pickett's Charge. A bullet to the head finally felled the young officer.
More than 151 years after his stand, Cushing will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously in a White House ceremony on Thursday.
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