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Here is what I have so far, at my Confederate Naval biographies:

Ebenezer Farrand, born in New York, about 1807 (one source shows place of birth as New Jersey); appointed from Florida (one source shows him as a citizen of Alabama); previous service in the United States Navy, from March 4, 1823; resided, as a Naval lieutenant, in 1850, with his wife, Elizabeth, and four children, at the Navy Yard, Escambia County, Florida; resigned from the United States Navy, January, 1861; appointed into the Confederate States Navy, as commander in charge of the Light House Bureau, Louisiana, March 26, 1861; commanded the Navy Yard at Pensacola, Florida, 1861; later served at the Richmond station, and commanded the facilities at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, 1861 – 1863; as captain and flag officer, commanded the Naval Station at Mobile, Alabama, 1864-1865; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; died at Attalla, Alabama, on March 20, 1873. [Porter's Naval History, 785; Florida Confederate Card File; Register1863; ORN 1, 7, 790 and 2, 1, 319 & 321; ORA 1, 51/2; 36th Congress Report 8; 1850 U.S. Census.]

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