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    Aired on
 May 22, 2005
(DVD's of this episode are available at the Port O' Plymouth Museum)

"The Most Daring Mission
Of The Civil War"
Documentary on Cushing's attack on the CSS Albemarle
    filmed by producer Carl Kriegeskotte
of the History Channel .
    

This title isn’t Hollywood Hype. Commander, W. F. Warley, of the Confederate ironclad, CSS Albemarle wrote of Lt. William Barker Cushing’s daring raid and destruction of his gunboat by writing, “… a more gallant thing was not done during the war.”  It’s hard to imagine a more credible source than Union Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles quoting Admiral David Farragut, "...the great chief of the American Navy, Farragut, who was endowed with like heroism, and for whom alone, the office of admiral was created and its honors intended, said to me that while no navy had braver or better officers than ours, young Cushing was the hero of the War."  
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