CIVIL WAR COMMANDO: William Cushing and the Daring Raid to Sink the Ironclad CSS Albemarle

A 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. This death defying mission succeeded in sinking the Albemarle, helped reelect Lincoln, and earned Cushing a hero's grave in the Naval Academy's cemetery.