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Brigadier General Humphrey Cushing Cushing spent most of the war in Boston acting as a good Federalist and doing nothing . . . that is until June 1814 when he was replaced by an even more do nothing officer . . . Henry Dearborn. Cushing was quietly sent off to command all troops in Connecticut, but was insulted when the governor placed him under the command of the state militia. Cushing then marched his few troops to the headquarters building of the militia in New London to try to show who was really in command. The local Militia commanders replied by assembling their much more numerous militia for inspection, forcing Cushing to withdraw. Thus Cushing spend his final days in bloodless combat with this own countrymen . . . and losing.
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