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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Franklin Buchanan Books, #97, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquisitions Information

1937

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• Buchanan, Franklin, 1800-1874.
• Confederate States of America. Navy--Records and correspondence.
• Constellation (Frigate)
• Delaware (Ship)
• Diary (Blank-books)
• Mediterranean Region--Description and travel.
• Mobile (Ala.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Norfolk (Va.)--History--19th century.
• United States (Frigate)
• United States. Navy--Officers--Diaries.
• United States. Navy--Sea life.

• Buchanan and Screven Families Papers (#99) Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Franklin Buchanan (1800-1874) of Maryland was a United States Navy officer and later admiral in the Confederate States Navy.

The collection includes a diary, 1829-1831, of Buchanan while a United States Navy officer on a Mediterranean tour of duty on the Constellation, and, 1833-1834, on another Mediterranean tour, partly on the Delaware and partly on the frigate United States; and a letter book, 1862-1863, with handwritten transcriptions of outgoing letters, orders, and reports, of Buchanan while Confederate admiral at Norfolk, Va., and at Mobile, Ala.