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Author Malanowski, Jamie.

Title Commander Will Cushing : daredevil hero of the Civil War / Jamie Malanowski.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.758 MALANOWSKI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B CUSHING WILLIAM    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B CUSHING    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.75 M29    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG CUSHING, WILLIAM    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B CUSHING    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [285]-288) and index.
Contents Terrible excitement -- Plague and pride -- A talent for buffoonery -- Not recommended -- Neither effective nor subordinate -- His exuberant spirit -- The Gosport debacle -- Delaware farmer -- Baptisms of fire -- Twenty-eight shells a minute -- Original and speculative -- Transformations -- The virginia -- The monitor -- Rising -- Reenter flusser -- Adventures of the ellis -- Pilot hunting -- Alonzo at antietam -- In old virginia -- At Gettysburg -- Alonzo's glory -- Grieving -- The essence of impudence -- Marsh grass and cattails -- High time we went -- Zigzag -- Letters from Welles -- The coming -- Rampage -- Too strong -- Proceed to New York -- No one else -- In case of failure -- Dead ahead -- Now -- Dead gone sunk -- Seldom equaled, never excelled -- Back in action -- Secret weapon -- Sitting duck -- Return to Fort Fisher -- Slaughter at the northeast bastion -- Endgames -- Victory -- On the west coast -- Love and duty -- Love letters -- In the orient -- Howard -- The world stage -- The Virginius -- The butcher -- Face-off -- At rest.
Summary A thrilling narrative biography of William Barker Cushing, the Civil War's most celebrated naval hero.
Subject Cushing, William Barker, 1842-1874.
Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
Albemarle (Confederate ironclad)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Commando operations.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Cushing, William Barker, 1842-1874. (OCoLC)fst00357690
Albemarle (Confederate ironclad) (OCoLC)fst00695543
United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term 1861 - 1865
Subject Armed Forces -- Officers. (OCoLC)fst00814617
Commando troops. (OCoLC)fst00869242
Ship captains. (OCoLC)fst01116147
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780393240894 (hardcover)
0393240894 (hardcover)
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