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Franklin Buchanan (September 17, 1800 – May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia .
The Pennant of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, flown from the CSS Tennessee Admiral's Rank flag of Admiral Buchanan, similarly flown from the CSS Tennessee. CSS Tennessee was a casemate ironclad ram built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines and Powell.
The Confederate States Navy was authorized 4 admirals in 1862, to be promoted from captains recognized for gallant or meritorious conduct during the war, but the only admiral appointed was Franklin Buchanan for commanding the ironclad Virginia at the Battle of Hampton Roads. Buchanan received the same grade in the Provisional Navy of the ...
Pennant of Admiral Franklin Buchanan used at Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1864 Confederate naval flag, captured when General William Sherman took Savannah, Georgia ...
Franklin Buchanan (Confederate admiral) USS Buchanan (DD-131) (destroyer) 20 January 1919: 9 September 1940: USS Buchanan (DD-484) (destroyer) 21 March 1942: 28 April 1948: USS Buchanan (DDG-14) (guided-missile destroyer) 7 February 1962: 1 October 1991: Battle of Chancellorsville (Confederate victory) USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) (guided ...
The first superintendent, Admiral Franklin Buchanan, joined the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral. Captain Sidney Smith Lee , the second commandant of midshipmen, [ 16 ] and older brother of Robert E. Lee, left Federal service in 1861 for the Confederate States Navy.
Supervised by Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan, The innovative boat successfully attacked a coal flatboat in Mobile Bay, suggesting that the relatively new concept of submarine warfare might be viable. [6] Mobile was the site of several Civil War hospitals for wounded and ill soldiers.