
Commander Will Cushing
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"Superbly entertaining.”—S. C. Gwynne, best-selling author of Empire of the Summer Moon
October 1864. The confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle had sunk two federal warships and damaged seven others, taking control of the Roanoke River and threatening the Union blockade. Twenty-one-year-old navy lieutenant William Barker Cushing hatched a daring plan: to attack the fearsome warship with a few dozen men in two small wooden boats. What followed, the close-range torpedoing of the Albemarle and Cushing's harrowing two-day escape downriver from vengeful Rebel posses, is one of the most dramatic individual exploits in American military history.Theodore Roosevelt said that Cushing "comes next to Farragut on the hero roll of American naval history,” but most have never heard of him today. Tossed out of the Naval Academy for "buffoonery,” Cushing proved himself a prodigy in behind-the-lines warfare. Given command of a small union ship, he performed daring, near-suicidal raids, "cutting out” confederate ships and thwarting blockade runners. With higher commands and larger ships, Cushing's exploits grow bolder, culminating in the sinking of the Albemarle.
A thrilling narrative biography, steeped in the tactics, weaponry, and battle techniques of the Union Navy, Commander Will Cushing brings to life a compelling yet flawed figure. Along with his three brothers, including one who fell at Gettysburg, Cushing served with bravery and heroism. But he was irascible and complicated—a loveable rogue, prideful and impulsive, who nonetheless possessed a genius for combat.
In telling Cushing's story, Malanowski paints a vivid, memorable portrait of the army officials, engineers, and politicians scrambling to win the war. But he also goes deeper into the psychology of the daredevil soldier—and what this heroic and tragic figure, who died before his time, can tell us about the ways we remember the glories of war.
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Terrible Excitement
- Chapter 2. Plague and Pride
- Chapter 3. A Talent for Buffoonery
- Chapter 4. Not Recommended
- Chapter 5. Neither Efficient nor Subordinate
- Chapter 6. His Exuberant Spirit
- Chapter 7. The Gosport Debacle
- Chapter 8. The Delaware Farmer
- Chapter 9. Baptisms of Fire
- Chapter 10. Twenty-Eight Shells a Minute
- Chapter 11. Original and Speculative
- Chapter 12. Transformations
- Chapter 13. The Virginia
- Chapter 14. The Monitor
- Chapter 15. Rising
- Chapter 16. Reenter Flusser
- Chapter 17. Adventures of the Ellis
- Chapter 18. Pilot Hunting
- Chapter 19. Alonzo at Antietam
- Chapter 20. In Old Virginia
- Chapter 21. At Gettysburg
- Chapter 22. Alonzo's Glory
- Chapter 23. Grieving
- Chapter 24. The Essence of Impudence
- Chapter 25. Marsh Grass and Cattails
- Chapter 26. High Time We Went
- Chapter 27. Zigzag
- Chapter 28. Letters from Welles
- Chapter 29. The Coming
- Chapter 30. Rampage
- Chapter 31. Too Strong
- Chapter 32. Proceed to New York
- Chapter 33. No One Else
- Chapter 34. In Case of Failure
- Chapter 35. Dead Ahead
- Chapter 36. Now
- Chapter 37. Dead Gone Sunk
- Chapter 38. Seldom Equaled, Never Excelled
- Chapter 39. Back in Action
- Chapter 40. Secret Weapon
- Chapter 41. Sitting Duck
- Chapter 42. Return to Fort Fisher
- Chapter 43. Slaughter at the Northeast Bastion
- Chapter 44. Endgames
- Chapter 45. Victory
- Chapter 46. On the West Coast
- Chapter 47. Love and Duty
- Chapter 48. Love Letters
- Chapter 49. In the Orient
- Chapter 50. Howard
- Chapter 51. The World Stage
- Chapter 52. The Virginius
- Chapter 53. The Butcher
- Chapter 54. Face-off
- Chapter 55. At Rest
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Sources
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Index
- Praise for COMMANDER WILL CUSHING
- Copyright
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