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Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (B)
Buchanan,
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(1800-74) He was born in Baltimore and
organized the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. In 1853, he became the
first American to set foot on Japanese soil (see Matthew Calbraith Perry).
In 1861 as the only full Admiral and senior officer of the Confederate
Navy, he was given command of the ironclad Virginia (previous
called the Merrimac) but was wounded the day before and did not
take part in the battle with the Monitor. Buchanan was of Scottish
ancestry and before the war, in which he was twice wounded, had been the
first superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy. After the war, he became
president of the Maryland Agricultural College, a bankrupt institution
with only a handful of students, and turned it into the University of
Maryland.
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