| Summary: | One of the first commanders appointed to the Confederate Navy. Responsible for selecting construction sites for Confederate warships along the Alabama River. This included the construction of the C.S.S. Nashville at Montgomery and of another ship at Selma. Assumed command of the Mobile Squadron following the capture of Admiral Buchanan during the Battle of Mobile Bay. Farrand's squadron of gunboats supported the Confederate Army at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely in the spring of 1865. After retiring up the Tombigbee River, Farrand surrendered his squadron to Union forces on May 8, 1865. Source: Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, Md.: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996.
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