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Franklin Buchanan: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born September 17, 1800 • Talbot • Baltimore • Maryland
Died May 11, 1874 (aged 73) • Talbot • Maryland
Role In American Civil War • Battle of Mobile Bay • Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack

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Franklin Buchanan, 1861
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