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The United States Navy was stressed by the situation as 24% of the US Navy officers resigned and joined the Confederate States Navy, including 95 graduates and 59 midshipmen from USNA,^[1] as well as many key leaders involved with the founding and establishment of USNA. The first USNA Superintendent, Admiral Franklin Buchanan,CSN led the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral, commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia in the historic Battle of Hampton Roads. The first superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury,USN, great naval reformer and advocate of the creation of the United States Naval Academy, after whom Maury Hall is named, similarly chose to serve the Confederate States Navy.