MAJOR-GENERAL E. V. SUMNER AND STAFF, 1862 _Frontispiece_ FACSIMILE OF PART OF LETTER BY ALONZO H. CUSHING, 1862 40 PORTRAIT OF HOWARD B. CUSHING 56 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM BARKER CUSHING 86 FACSIMILE OF PART OF LETTER BY HOWARD B. CUSHING, August 6, 1863 88 PORTRAIT OF ALONZO HERSFORD CUSHING 94 FACSIMILE OF PART OF LETTER BY WILLIAM B. CUSHING, May 15, 1871 102 WISCONSIN HISTORY COMMISSION (Organized under the provisions of Chapter 298, Laws of 1905, as amended by Chapter 378, Laws of 1907 and Chapter 445, Laws of 1909) JAMES O. DAVIDSON _Governor of Wisconsin_ FREDERICK J. TURNER _Professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin_ REUBEN G. THWAITES _Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin_ MATTHEW S. DUDGEON _Secretary of the Wisconsin Library Commission_ CHARLES E. ESTABROOK _Representing Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic_ * * * * * _Chairman_, COMMISSIONER ESTABROOK _Secretary and Editor_, COMMISSIONER THWAITES _Committee on Publications_, COMMISSIONERS THWAITES AND TURNER RECORDS AND APPRECIATIONS _Howard B. Cushing_ _Record_--Wisconsin. Private Co. B., 1st Illinois artillery, March 24, 1862 to November 30, 1863; private in B artillery (regular) November 30, 1863; second lieutenant, 4th artillery, November 30, 1863; transferred to 3rd cavalry, September 7, 1867; first lieutenant, December 16, 1867; killed May 5, 1871, in action with Apache Indians in Whetstone Mountains, Arizona. _Appreciation_--"Of the distinguished services rendered to Arizona by Lieutenant Howard B. Cushing, a book might well be written. It is not intended to disparage anybody when I say that he performed herculean and more notable work, perhaps, than had been performed by any other officer of corresponding rank either before or since. Southern Arizona owed much to the gallant officers who wore out strength and freely risked life and limb in her defence; * * * but if there were any choice among them I am sure that the verdict, if left to those officers themselves, would be in favor of Cushing."--JOHN G. BOURKE, _On the Border with Crook_ (N. Y., 1891), pp. 106, 107. _Alonzo Hersford Cushing_