Civil War Muster Rolls for Alonzo Cushing's Battery, Company A of the 4th US Artillery

by Frederick Fuger, Alonzo Cushing

$7,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Outside Uniontown, MD: n.p, 1863. Original pair of muster rolls from 1863, documenting the pay of the Union company just before their fateful role in turning back Pickett's Charge, the high-water mark of the Confederacy, with incomplete payments offering poignant evidence of their losses during the battle. Very good. Item #46514 At Gettysburg, Battery A was in the apex of Pickett's Charge on July 3rd, and suffered

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