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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 McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Franklin, TN; Confederate offices Index of Politicians by Office Held or Sought; Civil War Research & Discussion Group -*Confederate States of Am. Army and Navy Uniforms, 1861; The Countryman, 1862–1866, published weekly by Turnwold, Ga., edited by J.A. Turner; The Federal and the Confederate Constitution ...
The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. [ 1 ] There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles.
By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War. Knopf; reprint, Da Capo, n.d. ISBN 0-306-80367-4. Browning, Robert M. Jr. (1993). From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. University of Alabama. ISBN 0-8173-5019-5. Davis, William C. (1975). Duel Between the First Ironclads. Doubleday.
It was set apart by mudslinging and personal allegations that eclipsed substantive issues, such as civil administration change. Cleveland was the first Democrat elected president of the United States since James Buchanan in 1856 , the first to hold office since Andrew Johnson left the White House in 1869, and the last to hold office until ...
English: Captain Franklin Buchanan, CSN photographed in Confederate Navy uniform, during the Civil War. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Date between 1861 and 1865