Identifier: deedsofvalorhowa02beye (find matches)
Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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THE BLOWING UP OF THE ALBEMARLE ...Albemarle Sound in the spring of this same year was the cause of this alarm. Admiral Porter, having been apprised of the views of the department in this matter, suggested a plan to blow up the Albemarle with steam launches and by means of torpedoes. The plan was approved, and details arranged forthwith for the building of three steam launches by Naval Engineers Wood and Lay. Lieutenant Porter selected the young and indefatigable lieutenant, William D. Cushing, for the command of this hazardous expedition. Cushing accepted rejoicingly and started with the three launches about the middle of October from the New York Navy Yard for Hampton Roads. Here he arrived on the 24th with one badly battered launch, he and his crew utterly exhausted, from the weeks trip. Of the other two launches one had foundered shortly after leaving New York, the second had run ashore on account of a terrible storm in Chesapeake Bay and surrendered to the Confederates. Cushing alone, storm or no storm, pushed ahead and reached
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Image: Cushings daring and successful exploit — 75 — his destination. Admiral Porter ordered Cushing and his men to rest while the battered launch was put in ship-shape again. Just at that time the admiral was ordered to prefer charges against Cushing for the supposed violation of some neutral rights while in command of a vessel in those waters. Gushing felt greatly distressed about this, but the admiral, after a brief investigation, reported the young officer free from blame, and at the designated time Gushing in his launch started on his forlorn-hope trip, jubilant at having so fortunately slipped off from a possible court-martial. Passing through the Dismal Swamp Canal, Cushing, on the 27th of October, reached the Roanoke River in Albemarle Sound and reported to Captain Macomb on the flagship Shamrock. This same night he completed his arrangements and started up the Roanoke to find his prey. It was said that at the wreck of the Southfield, about seven miles up the river, ther

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