Chase, I'm with you any time you want to do brandy and seegars, I don't care what the occasion. But you're right. Cushing was a real tiger, even though he suffered from pranksmanship and poor scholarship at the Naval Academy. But has had 5 ships named after him. Died just after his 32nd birthday.
Kind of like Pickett in that way, I guess, only more so. Burned out young. Here's a link to his bio on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Cushing