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Bravery without forethought causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

-- Ts`ao Kung

Allegany (American Steamship, 1863-1865)

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USS Neptune was one of a class of five 1244-ton screw steamships purchased by the Navy in 1863, while they were under construction at New York City. She was placed in commission in mid-December 1863 and left New York for the West Indies in January 1864. She spent the rest of the Civil War cruising in that area and in convoying the steamers that operated between the U.S. and Panama as part of the transportation route to California. Neptune was decommissioned at the end of May 1865 and sold in July of that year. She soon entered commercial service under the name Allegany but was wrecked in a fog off Long Island, New York, on 5 December 1865.

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