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Franklin Buchanan , 1800-1874, American naval officer, b. Baltimore. Appointed a midshipman in 1815, Buchanan rose to be a commander in 1841. He was chief adviser to Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft in planning the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and was its first superintendent (1845-47). In Sept., 1861, he took the rank of captain in the Confederate navy, commanding the Virginia (formerly the Merrimack ) against the Union blockading squadron in Hampton Roads (Mar. 8, 1863). Wounded in that engagement, he took no part in the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack the next day. Promoted to ranking officer in the Confederate navy, he was forced to surrender to David G. Farragut in the battle of Mobile Bay (Aug. 5, 1864).

Bibliography: See biography by C. L. Lewis (1929).

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Buchanan, Franklin (1800–74) U.S. and Confederate naval officer, born in Baltimore, Maryland. Buchanan was the first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1845–47). He commanded the sloop Germantown in the Mexican War (1846–48), the steam frigate Susquehanna on Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan (1852), and commanded the Washington Navy Yard (1859–61). In the Civil War, he resigned his U.S. commission and was commissioned a captain in the Confederate Navy. Commanding the ironclad Virginia, he attacked and destroyed the wooden frigates Congress and Cumberland (March 8, 1862). He commanded the naval defenses of Mobile Bay, which he surrendered to Adm. David Farragut (August 5, 1864).

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