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Cushing: Civil War Seal

Hardback

Main Details

Title Cushing: Civil War Seal
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert John Schneller
SeriesMilitary Profiles
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 126
ISBN/Barcode 9781574885064
ClassificationsDewey:973.758092
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Potomac Books Inc
Imprint Potomac Books Inc
Publication Date 25 November 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

Dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the Navy's greatest heroes. Cushing transformed his reputation from a rabblerouser into a living legend, because he embodied the special qualities that the Navy demands of the men in whom it entrusts its most hazardous and secret tasks: a readiness to volunteer for dangerous assignments, an unflagging devotion to duty, and more than a fair share of good fortune. As Robert J. Schneller observes, "He was patriotic, aggressive, tough, and recklessly bold." Before embarking on his most daring mission-his celebrated destruction of the Confederate ironclad Albemarle-he bragged that he would "come out victorious or `toes up.'" By the end of the war he had amassed four commendations from the Navy Department and the thanks of Congress and President Lincoln. "All this for a man," Schneller writes, "who was only twenty-two years old when Lee surrendered at Appomattox." Employing his customary readable and entertaining style, Schneller focuses on Cushing's naval career and those aspects of his personality that affected it.