USS Mercedita (1861)

USS Mercedita (1861)

USS Mercedita (1861) was a wooden steamer that served as a gunboat in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

Mercedita was built at Brooklyn, New York in 1861. She was purchased by the Union Navy on 31 July 1861 from J. C. Jewett & Co., and commissioned at New York on 8 December 1861, Commander Henry S. Stellwagen in command.