Life Span
to
Full name
Franklin Buchanan
Place of Birth
Baltimore, MD
Burial Place
Easton, MD
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Family
George Buchanan (father), Laetitia McKean Buchanan (mother)
Occupation
Military
Businessman
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Confederate Navy
Date Event
Visiting Japanese diplomats tour the Washington Naval Yard
Off Norfolk, Virginia, the ironclad C.S.S. Virginia leads an attack that cripples the Union blockading fleet
In Mobile Bay, Alabama, U.S. naval forces win a comprehensive victory over the Confederate fleet
Civil War at Sea
Date Title
Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and others, June 12, 1863
Chicago Style Entry Link
Facts for the People, No. 1: The Conspiracy of Fillmore Leaders to Elect Buchanan, by Inducing Honest Men to Throw Away Upon Mr. Fillmore Votes Which Would Otherwise Be Cast Against Slavery Extension and for John C. Fremont. New York: H. F. Snowden, 1856. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Buchanan, Franklin," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5251.