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The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry's 3rd Division camped near Brandy Station before the Fleetwood Hill turning point in the Civil War, the start of the Union Army's Gettysburg offensive.

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Alonzo Hersford Cushing was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge, for which he earned the Medal of Honor 147 years after his death.