Cushing: Civil War SEAL

by Robert J. Schneller Jr.

Overview

Drawing parallels between the navy's conduct of special operations during the Civil War and today, this text recounts the death-defying combat record of the Union Navy's most colourful officer - William Barker Cushing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574886962
Publisher:	Potomac Books
Publication date:	11/30/2003
Series:	Military Profiles
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	5.02(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert J. Schneller., Ph.D., is a historian in the Contemporary History Branch of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Schneller’s first book, A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren. He received the 1996 John Lyman Book Award in Biography from the North American Society for Oceanic History. He also wrote (with Edward J. Marolda) Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War, which received the prestigious Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize from the Navy League of the United States. Schneller’s other books include an edition of John W. Grattan’s Civil War memoir, Under the Blue Pennant, Or Notes of a Naval Officer, 1863–1865, and Farragut: America's First Admiral (Brassey’s, Inc., 2002), the initial volume in Brassey’s Military Profiles series. He lives in Lake Ridge, Virginia.

Table of Contents

	List of Maps	ix
	Preface	xi
	Chronology	xv
Chapter 1	Restless Child	3
Chapter 2	Mischievous Midshipman	9
Chapter 3	Rough Ride to Renown	27
Chapter 4	Darkest Moment, Brightest Moment	59
Chapter 5	Final Rays of Glory	87
	Notes	105
	Bibliographic Note	111
	Index	115
	About the Author	120