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The lead author of the New York Times award-winning Disunion series presents William Barker Cushing, the Civil War's most celebrated naval hero. October 1864. The confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle experienced sunk two federal government warships and harmed 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 real wood boats. What followed, the close-range torpedoing of the Albemarle and Cushing's harrowing two-day get away from downriver from vengeful Rebel posses, is one of the very most dramatic specific exploits in American armed forces record. Theodore Roosevelt said that Cushing "comes next to Farragut on the hero spin of American naval record", but most haven't heard of him today. Tossed from the Naval Academy for "buffoonery", Cushing demonstrated himself a prodigy in behind-the-lines warfare. Given command line of a little union dispatch, he performed daring, near-suicidal raids, "eliminating" confederate boats and thwarting blockade athletes. With higher orders and larger boats, Cushing's exploits expand bolder, culminating in the sinking of the Albemarle. An exciting narrative biography, steeped in the techniques, weaponry, and challenge techniques of the Union Navy, Commander Will Cushing brings to life a compelling yet flawed physique. Together with his three brothers, including person who dropped at Gettysburg, Cushing offered with bravery and heroism. But he was irascible and complicated - a loveable rogue, prideful and impulsive, who nonetheless possessed a genius for battle. In informing Cushing's history, Malanowski paints a stunning, memorable portrait of the army officials, engineers, and politicians scrambling to win the war.
