are the favorite sons of delafield.at one point someone suggested naming the town cushing. but delafield had a better ring to it thought his aunt. >> he was pivotal at the most important battle in american history and he and his men saved the union. >> he's your guy. >> he's our guy born feet from where we are standing right now just on the banks of the bark river. >> but cushing never received that highest of all military recognitions until one woman set out to change that. >> my name, margaret zurwick. >> now 94 years old, zurwick began what she called a project to give alonzo cushing his due. >> why were you so interested? >> because nobody else was, i think. >> you must really like history. >> oh yeah, it pays to know what happened anyplace you live you want to know what happened there. and is there some gold hidden someplace, buried? but you never know. >> alonzo cushing story is like gold? >> yes. yes. >> zurwick became a prospector, and launching a four decade long campaign. hundreds of letters to senators, local