biography
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| (1800–74)
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He became the first superintendent of the Naval School at Annapolis (1845–7). He was captain of Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship during Perry's mission to Japan (1852–3). He joined the Confederate States Navy (1861) and commanded the Chesapeake Bay squadron, and became a Confederate admiral (1862). Wounded and captured at Mobile Bay (1864), he was released in a prisoner exchange (1865). |
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