... It is believed the Federals are arcuting rafts or boats, upon which they hope, by the assistance and aid of this gunboat, to land their forces on the Tennessee side of the Mississippi river, below Island 10 , and at or above Tiptonville, and thus capture, by their large force, our batteries on the Tennessee shore and then Island 10; and thus, at that point, to remove an impassable barrier to the dissor ...