Promoted to full admiral - the only man ever to bear that rank in the Confederacy - he was sent to Mobile Bay to take command of the naval forces there. Badly wounded in that fight, he missed the Virginia’s historic clash with the Monitor the next day. Earlier in the Civil War, he had commanded the CSS Virginia during its initial sortie Hampton Roads when it all but destroyed the Union fleet there on March 8, 1862. Naval Academy, where the superintendent’s home is named Buchanan House in his honor. He was the founding superintendent of the U.S. Buchanan had subsequently commanded warships against pirates in the Caribbean, and he led a storming party ashore during the Mexican War to capture an enemy fort. He had entered the Navy as a teenager - not unusual in those days - during the War of 1812, first serving under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry, fresh from his immortal victory on Lake Erie. Buchanan was an old sea dog with an illustrious and lengthy career. Inside Mobile Bay, the Confederacy’s only full admiral, Franklin Buchanan, waited with his flagship, CSS Tennessee, the most powerful rebel ironclad since the Virginia. The Battle of Mobile Bay had a dramatic cast of leading characters. Indeed, Farragut’s charge into Mobile Bay in August of 1864 may have been the most dramatic moment of the naval war, comparable to Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg or the Union assault up Missionary Ridge.
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