GDG- Re:Cushing spent the day yawning ...Ho-Hum!

[DShultz180 at aol.com]

> <<Cushing spent the day yawning.>>
> 
Hardly the situation. When Cushing [Woodruff and Arnold too] topped the ridge 
that morning he was met with Confederate arty fire which was kept up on and 
off until dusk (various rates). Unfortunately for Cushing, as it were, the 
enemy used the then not so famous coppice of trees, off his immediate left 
(front), to gain range. Fortunately for Cushing, however, as on July 3rd, Confederate 
ordnance was it's usual inferior product. They had him zeroed but failed to 
silence him. Again as July 3rd Hancock saw to it that the batteries attached to 
his corps July 2nd supported his regiments then engaged to the front. Cushing 
engaged on and off all day July 2nd firing over 300 rounds of various 
ammunitions. Nothing to, ho-hum, yawn about.

What's unique about Cushing when Wright's line struck west of the trees is 
the fact Lieutenant George Dwight, 2nd Corps Ordnance Officer, was with him [the 
battery] at that time. Dwight wrote a lengthy note to Hunt (on request) about 
what occurred that day at that time mentioning only Brown's misfortunes. 
Other then suggesting he sent two of Cushings caissons to Gillette's trains before 
the firing stopped not one word is mentioned of either Cushing and or 
Arnold's engagements [to a degree]. To him it was just another ... ho-hum engagement 
as it were. I would imagine had either of those batteries been overrun Dwight 
might have made note of it.

Best ... yawn,

Dave