This is what I've found so far in the O.R.'s
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19-23, Confederate steamer Paint Rock deserted and rescued from the Suck [see August 23, 1863, Federals extricate Confederate steamer Paint Rock from the Suck and destroy railroad bridge over the Tennessee River near Shellmound]
No circumstantial reports filed.

TRACY CITY, August 21, 1863--1.30 a. m.

Col. FLYNT, Fourteenth Army Corps, or Gen. GARFIELD:

SIR: I have the honor to report that 7 deserters from the steamer Paint Rock have just arrived; they left the boat on Wednesday [19th] morning. The capstan was at that time broken, and as there were but 28 men (First Louisiana Regt.) to work her, 11 of that number having now deserted, she probably cannot be removed without another detail of men from Chattanooga. She was lying at the Skillet-between the Skillet and Suck. They report two companies of rebel cavalry at Chaldon's Mill, the only troops on their route here.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. H. CARLTON, Col. Eighty-ninth Ohio.

OR, Ser. I, Vol. 30, pt. III, p 100