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Born January 14, 1806 • Virginia
Died February 1, 1873 (aged 67) • Lexington • Virginia
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1930)
Notable Works “Sailing Directions” • “The Physical Geography of the Sea”
Role In American Civil War

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Franklin Buchanan, 1861
Franklin Buchanan
United States naval officer
David Farragut, daguerreotype=
David Farragut
United States admiral
Portrait of Jefferson Davis wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with short wavy hair and a pointed beard, set against a blue oval background.
Jefferson Davis
president of Confederate States of America
Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton
Confederate general
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls
American politician
Robert Augustus Toombs
Robert A. Toombs
American politician
John C. Breckinridge
John C. Breckinridge
vice president of United States
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate general
Judah Benjamin
Judah P. Benjamin
American lawyer and politician
Alexander H. Stephens
Alexander H. Stephens
vice president of Confederate States of America
John Brown Gordon
John Brown Gordon
Confederate general
Andrew Foote
Andrew Foote
American naval officer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
Campbell, John Archibald
John Archibald Campbell
American jurist
Price, Sterling
Sterling Price
American politician
David Dixon Porter, photograph; in the Mathew Brady collection
David Dixon Porter
United States naval officer
William Barker Cushing
William Barker Cushing
United States naval officer
John L. Worden, detail from an engraving by J.C. Buttre after a portrait by R.A. Lewis
John L. Worden
American admiral
Floyd
John Buchanan Floyd
American politician
Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
American oceanographer

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