Daniel Abbey, 2nd Assistant Surgeon, 29th Regiment Missouri Infantry, relieved from duty as Post Surgeon, Cape Girardeau, Mo., November 12, 1862, recorded present, sick on the Nov/Dec, 1862 muster roll, died of Typhoid Pneumonia January 28, 1863 on transport Von Phul during the trip from Young’s Pt., La. to St. Louis, Mo., P. O. Address, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

M405: Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri.

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Correction, the Von Phul was a transport steamer hastily placed into service for transporting the wounded.

Medical/Surgical History--Part III, Volume II
Chapter XV.--Transportation Of The Wounded.
Water Transportation.

“ . . . . the unsuccessful attack on Vicksburg, in December, the battle of Arkansas Post, and the advance of the whole army in the direction of Vicksburg made it necessary to again resort to chartering transports. The City of Memphis and City of Alton were again temporarily fitted up, and with the D. A. January transferred the sick and wounded from Milliken's Bend, Young's Point, and Sherman's Landing, to Memphis and St. Louis. In the meantime, however, several boats had been taken--the steamers Von Phul and J. C. Swon, in fact at least one-fourth of the returning transports--without a single comfort for the sick and wounded on board, were made use of to transfer them to the general hospitals North. Under such circumstances the suffering was terrible and the mortality frightful. I am not disposed to find fault, nor do I wish to censure any one, but I feel it my duty to remark that the Medical Department did everything in their power to correct this matter, with but poor success. . . . .”
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