Here are a few random notes re this subject:
07 24 1863 [Friday]
Men captured in hospital and paroled at Vicksburg 15, 1863, were shipped with paroled sick and wounded prisoners from Vicksburg to Mobile, Ala. via New Orleans, La. (M268)
US Steamer-- H. Chouteau was one of the ships that transported wounded from Vicksburg hospitals thru New Orleans on to Pt. Clear. (Internet Missouri SCV Message Jan. 5, 1999 by Neil Block)
At six o’clock we marched down to the wharf. While awaiting the boat upon which we were to travel we supplied ourselves with watermelons of the finest quality at reasonable figures. At seven o’clock we struck sail up Tensaw River. At ten o’clock we arrived at Tensaw landing. At four o’clock we left this point for Montgomery, Alabama. We traveled slowly all night and daylight saw us at Pollard, fifty miles from the river. the rest of the Brigade did not get off till at night. (Stamper)
8 04 1863 [Tuesday]
From the Selma (Ala.) Morning Reporter, Aug. 4, 1863 - DIED - On board steamer Duke on her way up from Mobile to this place, Private Robert Caldwell, of Company H, 59th Tennessee Regiment.
08 05 1863 [Wednesday]
Capt. Andrew J. Cawood, Co. B, 43rd Tennessee Infantry, died at Point Clear, Alabama. Capt. Cawood was with the paroled sick and wounded prisoners shipped from Vicksburg July 24, 1863 to Mobile, Ala., via New Orleans, La (M268 Roll 290, 102)
Confederate soldiers wounded as Vicksburg were treated at the Grand Hotel Hospital in Point Clear [Great Clear Point], Baldwin Co., Alabama. Those who died there are believed to be buried in the Confederate Rest section of the Point Clear Cemetery. (Mobile Register, February 7, 1999 article by J. Pepper Bryars)
Grand Hotel, since 1847
The original Grand Hotel, which stood on this site, was converted to a Confederate Military Hospital during the Civil War. The 21st Alabama Infantry maintained a garrison at the Hotel & tioios were encamped on the grounds. .. Historic records & identities of soldiers who died in this hospital were destroyed by fire in the hotel bake room in 1867.
Confederate Rest Cemetery
Approximately 300, mostly unknown Confederate Soldiers are buried here. The main influx of soldiers, were the sick & wounded paroled after the fall of Vicksburg & shipped down the Mississippi River to Confederate Hospitals in New Orleans & Mobile. Because of over crowding these soldiers were sent on to the Grand Hotel-turned hospital, in Point Clear. Three, 6’X4’50’ trenches were discovered using ground radar scanning equipment in 1998.
In addition to Capt. Cawood, 52 year old Samuel McCamish, Co. I. may also have died here. Family records that he never returned from the war and he was one of those wounded in the Vicksburg shipment.