Although any number of scenarios are possible, here are a couple of documented men who died during their transport to Mobile following Vicksburg. One has to assume that where the ship was at the time of death would be crucial to the decision of where/how to dispose of the dead.

Pvt John M. Smith, 37th Ala., a Vicksburg parolee, died at New Orleans 27 July 1863 while aboard the steamer H. Chouteau en route to Mobile and was buried the next day at Cypress Grove Cemetery No. 2 at New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La.

According to a claim filed by his father, Pvt William J. Harris, 37th Ala., yet another Vicksburg survivor aboard the H. Chouteau died 31 July 1863 and was buried at Point Clear, Ala., (presuming interment in the hospital cemetery there).