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Author : Eliza Mary Hatch Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Commander William Barker Cushing, of the United States Navy written by Eliza Mary Hatch Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert John Schneller
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612340512
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Cushing written by Robert John Schneller and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismissed from the U.S. Naval Academy in early 1861, William Barker Cushing nonetheless emerged from the Civil War as one of the NavyÆs 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.
Author : Alden R. Carter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742599965
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Sea Eagle written by Alden R. Carter and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Barker Cushing is considered one of the navy's greatest heroes of the Civil War. After his expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, Cushing managed to get an appointment as a master's mate on one of the warships of a blockading squadron. Cushing's daring and exceptional performance in battle led to a spectacular rise in rank, responsibility, and reputation. His military career culminated in his torpedoing of the Confederate ironclad Albermarle on the Roanoke River in 1864, an operation he executed under heavy enemy fire. This new and fully annotated edition of Cushing's memoir, originally written in 1867–1868, conveys the excitement and drama of a truly extraordinary Civil War naval career.
Author : Julian R. McQuiston
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470550
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book William B. Cushing in the Far East written by Julian R. McQuiston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from success in sinking the Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Captain Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumee in Hong Kong to aid the restoration of America's naval power in Asia. By linking such aims to British policy, and by courting Chinese and Japanese officials, he succeeded in re-establishing American naval and commercial power in the Far East. In his letters to his fiancee, he brilliantly recorded his travels and observations of people and places (and the difficulties of reconciling his naval career with his devotion to her, whom he married in 1870).
Author : Jerome Preisler
Publisher : Regnery History
ISBN 13 : 1621576795
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Civil War Commando written by Jerome Preisler and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Ironclads and Commandos Here at last is an action-packed portrait of one of America’s greatest but little-remembered Civil War heroes, Commander William Barker Cushing, who sank the Confederate ironclad Albemarle in a spectacular mission in 1864. Regarded as erratic and insubordinate, Midshipman Cushing was drummed out of the Naval Academy in March 1861. But with the outbreak of war, the Union needed every trained officer it could find— and whatever his flaws, Cushing was an extremely talented naval officer. Ferocious, uncompromising, courageous, and loyal, he became a U.S. Navy commando and at the age of twenty-one was sent to destroy the South’s ultimate naval weapon—the Albemarle, an unsinkable vessel with a devastating iron ram. This death-defying mission succeeded in sinking the Albemarle, helped reelect President Abraham Lincoln, and earned Cushing a hero’s grave in the Naval Academy’s cemetery. Here is that story, told with all the verve and drama it deserves, shining new light on one of the most important naval encounters of the war. Civil War Commando is a masterpiece of naval history that reads like a thriller and gives a neglected hero his due.
Author : Jamie Malanowski
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245799
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War written by Jamie Malanowski and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Author : Theron Wilber Haight
Publisher : [Madison] : Wisconsin History Commission
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Three Wisconsin Cushings written by Theron Wilber Haight and published by [Madison] : Wisconsin History Commission. This book was released on 1910 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Stempel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488735
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The CSS Albemarle and William Cushing written by Jim Stempel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 27, 1864, two marvels of the Civil War collided on the Roanoke River near Plymouth, North Carolina. The first was the formidable Confederate ironclad Albemarle, a 376-ton behemoth that had for months roamed the nearby rivers and waters of Albemarle Sound, defeating in turn everything the Federal Navy could throw at it. The second was William B. Cushing, a 21-year-old Federal naval lieutenant who had been selected to lead a virtual suicide mission to destroy the ironclad in her berth. This chronicle of the young officer's "David vs. Goliath" victory over the daunting ironclad presents a tale of courage and accomplishment.
Author : United States. Naval War Records Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion written by United States. Naval War Records Office and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Field, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN 13 : 9780898756753
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)
Download or read book History of United States Naval Operations written by James A. Field, Jr. and published by University Press of the Pacific. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans think of the Korean War as death and hardship in the bitter hills of Korea. It was certainly this, and for those who fought this is what they generally saw. Yet every foot of the struggles forward, every step of the retreats, the overwhelming victories, the withdrawals and last ditch stands had their seagoing support and overtones. The spectacular ones depended wholly on amphibious power -- the capability of the twentieth century scientific Navy to overwhelm land-bound forces at the point of contact. Yet the all pervading influence of the sea was present even when no major landing or retirement or reinforcement highlighted its effect. When navies clash in gigantic battle or hurl troops ashore under irresistible concentration of ship-borne guns and planes, nations understand that sea power is working. It is not so easy to understand that this tremendous force may effect its will silently, steadily, irresistibly even though no battles occur. No clearer example exists of this truth in wars dark record than in Korea. Communist-controlled North Korea had slight power at sea except for Soviet mines. So beyond this strong underwater phase the United States Navy and allies had little opposition on the water. It is, therefore, easy to fail to recognize the decisive role navies played in this war fought without large naval battles.
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Truxtun Moebs
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book America's Naval Heritage written by Thomas Truxtun Moebs and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.
Author : Richard J. Kahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190053267
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820 written by Richard J. Kahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods. He performed experiments and autopsies, became interested in the new chemistry of Lavoisier, risked scorn in his use of alkaline remedies, studied epidemic fever and approaches to bloodletting, and struggled to understand epidemic fever, childbed fever, cancer, public health, consumption, mental illness, and the "dangers of spirituous liquors." Dr. Barker intended to publish his Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820 by subscription - advance pledges to purchase the published volume - but for reasons that remain uncertain, that never happened. For the first time, Barker's never before published work has been transcribed and presented in its entirety with extensive annotations, a five-chapter introduction to contextualize the work, and a glossary to make it accessible to 21st century general readers, genealogists, students, and historians. This engaging and insightful new publication allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced by a rural physician in New England. We know much about how elite physicians practiced 200 years ago, but very little about the daily practice of an ordinary rural doctor, attending the ordinary rural patient. Barker's manuscript is written in a clear and engaging style, easily enjoyed by general readers as well as historians, with extensive footnotes and a glossary of terms. Barker himself intended his book to be "understood by those destitute of medical science."
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kent Masterson Brown
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146054
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Cushing of Gettysburg written by Kent Masterson Brown and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Lieutenant Cushing was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the pPresident of the United States on November 6, 2014, 151 years after his death at the Angle at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, where he commanded Battery A, Fourth United States Artillery. He is likely the last Civil War soldier to who will be so honored. Although many individuals were involved in the effort to give the Medal of Honor to Cushing, this book, first published in 1993, played a critical role.
Author : James C Rentfrow
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514480
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Home Squadron written by James C Rentfrow and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897. At the beginning of this period, the warships assigned to this station were collectively administered by a rear-admiral, but were operationally deployed as individual units, each of whose actions were directed by their captains. By 1897 the North Atlantic, or “Home” Squadron as it was known, was a group of warships constituting a protean battle fleet – that is, an organized body moving and fighting in close-order, which meant that the actions of the captains were directed by a commanding admiral. The process of the development of an American battle fleet resulted in the construction of a new organizational identity for the North Atlantic Squadron. This process was as critical as the eventual outcome. It was not linear, but one in which progress in critical areas was modulated by conflicting demands that caused distraction. From 1874-1888, exercises in fleet tactics under steam were carried out sporadically utilizing existing wooden cruising vessels. From 1889-1894, the last wooden cruisers were decommissioned and the Squadron consisted entirely of new steel warships. Ad-hoc concentrations of vessels for purposes besides exercise and training retarded the continued development of doctrine and tactics necessary for a multi-ship fighting capability during this time. However, much work was done to develop a concept of multi-ship operations. From 1895-1897, the identity of the North Atlantic Squadron as a combat unit solidified. Tactical exercises were held that had specific offensive and defensive wartime applications. These exercises were necessary to develop a combat capability. The results of this study demonstrate that the United States government had an interest in developing an offensive naval combat capability as early as the 1870’s. Based on the record of the North Atlantic Squadron, it is argued that imperial aspirations, in the sense of possessing a capability to restrict the actions of other great powers in the Caribbean region, existed prior to the War of 1898. However, the process of change often resulted in the appearance of capability without the rigorous exercise necessary to possess it.
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
