As the New Orleans passed through Chickasaw territory  (in what is now Tennessee), a group of threatening Chickasaw paddled after the steamboat.  Years later, Lydia Roosevelt remembered their "wild shouts" as the New Orleans gradually pulled away from them.  Suffering the dismissive laughter of the crew and acknowledging that "steam had the advantage of endurance," the Roosevelts couldn't help being alarmed, considering the tense relations between Euro-Americans and Native Americans. They were still talking it out as they tried to sleep that night.

(The New Orleans' location on this day is extrapolated based on her average speed between recorded locations.)