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Buchanan, Franklin (1800–1874)| US naval officer. He joined the Confederate States Navy in 1861 and commanded the Chesapeake Bay squadron, became a Confederate admiral (1862, was wounded and captured at Mobile Bay (1864), and was released in a prisoner exchange (1865). |
| He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He became the first superintendent of the Naval School at Annapolis 1845–47. He was captain of Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship during Perry's mission to Japan 1852–53, which forced Japan to enter trade and diplomatic relations with the West after two centuries of isolation. |
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