Interrupting its hunt for the notorious raider Alabama, USS Wyoming got involved in someone else’s civil war. On May 11, 1863, the U.S. Navy screw sloop Wyoming put into Yokohama Harbor, acting on a summons from Robert H. Pruyn, the American minister in Japan, “to show the flag.” Wyoming had been roaming the Pacific since …
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