Having received this order I went to New Orleans to confer with Banks about the proposed movement.

All these movements came to naught.
During this visit I reviewed Banks' army a short distance above Carrollton.

The horse I rode was vicious and but little used, and on my return to New Orleans ran away and, shying at a locomotive in the street, fell, probably on me.

I was rendered insensible, and when I regained consciousness I found myself in a hotel near by with several doctors attending me.

My leg was swollen from the knee to the thigh, and the swelling, almost to the point of bursting, extended along the body up to the arm-pit.