The USS Fawn was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

Throughout the remainder of the Civil War, Fawn patrolled the Mississippi, Tennessee, White and Arkansas Rivers, also convoying Union Army transports, ferrying troops across rivers, carrying Army payrolls, and often engaging Confederate batteries, cavalry, and foot soldiers ashore.

For much of her career, she served in the White River, convoying transports and shelling Confederate positions threatening Union troop concentrations.

From March through June 1864, aside from a brief repair period at Memphis, Tennessee, she supported Army operations against Clarendon, Arkansas, receiving one hit from a shore battery there.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.