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Tennessee I
The first Tennessee—a former Confederate, sidewheel steamboat—was captured by the West Gulf Blockading Squadron when Rear Admiral David G. Farragut took New Orleans on 25 April 1862. Commissioned in the United States Navy on 2 May 1862, the ship was renamed Mobile (q.v.) on 1 September 1864.
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