Good information on these transport steamers. Lists of their passengers seem to be non-existent from my research as well as information coming from Ft. Morgan. There is a log from those who passed through Ft. Morgan (See NARA for this microfilm) but it is sketchy at best. Ft. Morgan was in neutral territory at this point -summer of 1863- and a good place to check out. Bones have been found in recent renovations there suggesting soldiers who died at the fort may have been buried in a mass grave on site. So... soldiers wounded at Vicksburg either died on board and were buried at sea, made it to Ft. Morgan and were assigned to various hospitals in the Mobile area and either lived or died there OR survived their wounds and died en route to their homes OR made it back only to face the consequences of defeat. There are many possibilities as to what may have happened to these soldiers.

Surgeons records and family information on individuals may help those of us who have ancestors MAA (missing after action.) As for me, I'm compilling a list of transport steamers and the men who were carried on them, as well as the units represented. Soldiers were often kept together in their regiments and companies as a matter of preference and order. I'm also networking on other sites such as ancestry.com and reading eveything I can about Vicksburg. My ancestor, Samuel McCamish, a 52 year old private in the TN 43rd, may never be found but I continue to collect and deduce from information that comes my way.