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Buchanan, Franklin, 1800-1874

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Personal name headingBuchanan, Franklin, 1800-1874
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1800-09-17
Death date1874-05-11
Place of birthBaltimore (Md.)
AffiliationConfederate States of America. Navy
Profession or occupationAdmirals
Found inDu Pont, S.F. Log books, 1817-1859 (Franklin Buchanan; naval officer; b. Sept. 17, 1800, Baltimore, Md.; d. May 11, 1874; 1st supt. of U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, 1845-47; admiral in Confederate Navy, 1862-64; cmdr. C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimac))
Finding aid for Buchanan and Screven family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 30, 2020 (The collection includes a letter from John Screven to his son, John Screven Junior, 1801; record of a slave sale, 1858; letter to Mrs. Franklin Buchanan from James C. Palmer mentioning Admiral Buchanan's defeat by Farragut, 1864; two letters from Henry N. Marmaduke of the United States Navy Department Library enclosing sketches of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and Captain Catesby Jones, 1913; and three newspaper clippings on Admiral Buchanan)
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