No Backmark. Trimmed CDV image, 2.5 x 2” (w/rounded corners), laid on white card, 3.25 x 2.875.” Image depicts young bearded bareheaded subject seated in chair against a studio backdrop. Cushing wears shoulder-strapped frock coat and sword belt w/sash, and holds a scabbarded sword across his lap. Exhibits light yellowing and slight soiling while remaining sharply distinct.

Lysander Cushing was a farmer by occupation, a 25-year-old resident of East Abington, MA. He enlisted on 6/26/1861 and was mustered as 2^nd Lieutenant in Co. “G”, 12^th Mass. Infantry. Receiving promotion to 1^st Lieutenant, 9/17/1861, he was killed at Antietam, 9/17/1862.

His unit, the 12^th Mass. Infy. was mustered in June 1861. Serving with the Union 3^rd Corps, 2nd Corps, and then finally with the 5^th Corps, this unit saw action during Stonewall Jackson’s 1862Shenandoah Valley Campaign, and at Cedar Mountain, and again at Antietam, where Lt. Cushing was killed. From then on, the unit participated in all the major battles and campaigns of the Army of the Potomac Fredericksburg through the beginning of the June 1864 Siege of Petersburg. [At Gettysburg, with the 1^st Corps, on July 1^st, 1863, the 12^th moved across the Chambersburg Pike to engage Confederates in the vicinity of Oak Hill]. Ordered home on 7/25/1864, the Regt. was mustered out 7/8/1864. During service it lost 193 men killed and mortally wounded and 83 by disease for a total of 276.

Fine memento of a Lieutenant killed earlier at Antietam.  [JP]

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