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On the 10th of August, 1863, accompanied by my secretary, Miss Mary Shelton, now Mrs. Judge Houston of Burlington, Iowa, I started on my return trip to Vicksburg, with a heavy shipment of hospital supplies.
The _Van Phul_, the steamer on which we took passage at St. Louis, reached Helena, Ark., on the 16th of August.