CSS Junaluska, also known as Younalaska, was a screw steamer tugboat that saw service with the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.

Serving off of the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, she participated in the capture of the gunboat USS Fanny on October 1, 1861, and later in a raid on a Union campsite.

[5] The Confederate States Navy purchased her in 1861 for service in the American Civil War while Junaluska was at Norfolk, Virginia.

[6] She was unarmed until September 30, when she was armed with a single 6-pounder cannon,[7] a piece so light that historian William R. Trotter referred to it metaphorically as a popgun.

[4] As part of the North Carolina Squadron commanded by Flag Officer William F. Lynch, along with the gunboats CSS Raleigh and CSS Curlew,[8] Junaluska participated in a naval expedition against the gunboat USS Fanny the next day.