receive the favor of an order for transportation to Cairo, with the
privilege of stopping at Island No. 10 and Columbus. He neither asked
me a question nor opened my papers, but threw them to his clerk, with
directions to give the order. Then he sent it to the quartermaster to
fill. On my return I called on the provost-marshal and secured my
pass. Said the doctor, "What did the general say?"

"Nothing," I answered; "he only looked at me when I gave him my
papers, and passed them over to his clerk to make the order."

"I think he might just as well have sent them by me; but the general
hadn't seen a Union woman for so long, he just wanted to take a look
at one."

I was soon on the steamer that took me from this city of many exciting
scenes. Here I learned the sequel of my Tennessee correspondents,
formerly mentioned, and was shown the house where they had both lain
dead men.

I found on the island many waiting for the remainder of my supplies.
The number in camp had now reached about 3,000. I also spent a little
time at Fort Pillow, where a company of ex-slaves, thirty-seven in
number, had just made their escape from their old home. They had
traveled all night to get to our lines. They took two mules and two
carts to bring their bundles and little folks. Men, women, and larger
children walked twenty-five miles, to get to Fort Pillow. "What time
did you start?" I asked one of the tired women. "Early moonrise," was
the reply. That was about 11 o'clock P. M., and they had made all
possible speed to get to our lines, and seemed very much pleased to
get clear of pursuers, as some in their neighborhood had been shot and