USS Sarah and Caroline was a schooner captured by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.

While on blockade duty on the afternoon of 11 December 1861, Union side wheel steamer, USS Bienville, sighted two sails and immediately gave chase.

She succeeded in driving one ship aground in the breakers at the mouth of the St. Johns River, and she captured the other, a small pilot-boat schooner, named Sarah and Caroline.

The dangers of the Atlantic Ocean in winter precluded sending the frail schooner north for adjudication, so she was kept at Port Royal, South Carolina.

Although no record of her service has been found, Sarah and Caroline apparently served the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron as a ship's tender.