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In a listing of casualties of the 4th Brigade, Stevenson’s division during the siege of Vicksburg, commanded by Col A .W. Reynolds, the following note, no date, appears:

“Editors Register-I forward you the above for publication, believing that it would be the surest way to relieve the great anxiety felt for the members of the 4th Brigade by their friends in Tennessee. Within the past two months disease and death have been among us, and the bodies of some true and brave men now lie mouldering upon the banks of the Great Mississippi. To the friends generaly permit me to say, that the sick and wounded of our command, who were unable to move with the army, are all collected at a brigade-hospital, and Surgeon Hodge of the 43d Tennessee, Assistant Surgeon Thomassen of the 59th Tennesssee and myself are remaining to care for them. They are not under the treatment of Federal medical officers. As early their condition and safety will justify, they will be conveyed withing the Confederate lines, and thence, I trust, to their homes.

I am, very respectfully, B. W. Toole, Senior Surgeon of the Brigade.