Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War
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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 Cus...





















