USS Mobile was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

Mobile, a side wheel steamer built as Tennessee at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1854 for Charles Morgan’s Texas Line, was seized by Maj. Gen. M. Lovell, CSA, at New Orleans, Louisiana, 15 January 1862, and put into service as a Confederate government operated blockade runner; captured by U.S. forces at New Orleans 25 April 1862; and commissioned as Tennessee 8 May 1862, Acting Master John D. Childs in command.

Her speed also brought numerous assignments as a dispatch boat for the squadron, taking her from Pensacola, Florida, to gulf coast points as far away as the mouth of the Rio Grande.

On 1 September 1864, following the capture of ironclad CSS Tennessee and her commissioning as a ship of the U.S. Navy, the side wheeler steamer was renamed Mobile.

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