Thanks, Rick. This compilation caused me to recall the risk one might take with government-provided transportation.

The U.S. Quartermaster officers in Vicksburg contracted to transport some 2200 former inmates of Andersonville, Cahaba, and Meridian stockades (bonafide U.S. veterans) up the Mississippi from Vicksburg during the third week of April 1865. Not calculated to be "pleasant passage," the trip home ended abruptly some nine miles north of Memphis on April 27.