Edwin Merrill "Ned" Cushing (September 7, 1830 – December 7, 1903) was an American tenor horn player, auctioneer, and coroner in Staunton, Virginia.

Cushing was a charter member and first president of the Stonewall Brigade Band.

[3] David Drake and Cushing helped found the Stonewall Brigade Band, recruiting A. J. Turner as its first director.

[7][8] Before the war, Cushing was sergeant major of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, Virginia.

He reportedly served as a "most efficient member" of the Confederate commissary department and, at one point, was appointed as an overseer of the poor.