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USS Mobile (ex-USS Tennessee)

The Mobile was a sidewheel steamer captured as a prize in New Orleans in April 1862 and commissioned 8 May 1862 as the USS Tennessee. She was renamed to USS Mobile effective 1 September 1864 after the capture of the CSS Tennessee at the Battle of Mobile Bay

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  • Deaths

      Name Rate/Rank Date of Death Age
    ◼ ⋂Frederick FurbishActing Ensign26 October 1863
    ✚Nathaniel HobbsActing Gunner8 July 186335
    〰 ✎George RyderLandsman18 January 1863
    〰 ✎James SeedsPrivate, USMC25 January 186427
    ✎Stephen M. ShermanPrivate, USMC9 July 1863
    James SlevinLandsman15 November 186416
    ✎George Willis17 July 1862
    ✹ ✎Andrew YoungSeaman28 July 186318

    Key

    ⚔ killed in action
    ★ prisoner of war
    ✚ died of disease or injury
    ◼died of yellow fever
    ø died due to vessel loss
    ✹ died in ordnance accident
    ⋂ buried on land in marked grave
    〰 buried/lost at sea
    🎖 Medal of Honor recipient
    ✎ transcribed letters of sailor/marine posted

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