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Further information from the same source would indicate that the transportation may have been by boat. If so, it probably still only took a couple of days:
"From 23 to 31 May the Army of the Potomac moved south toward Richmond and then east around that city toward Petersburg. Early engagements resulted in fewer than 2,800 injured, but in early June the battle of Cold Harbor accounted for almost 7,000 wounded. In addition, many who were sick rather than injured also had to be evacuated. For more than a month, the men's rations had included no vegetables. Scurvy was appearing among soldiers already suffering from malaria and, with sanitation in the trenches poor, bowel complaints as well. Only after mid-June did shipments of the new crops of vegetables begin to arrive for Grant's men, including a large supply for the depot at White House. By then, however, thousands of the seriously ill and wounded had left White House for general hospitals to the north.
"At the White House depot, surgeons attempted to load the patients from Cold Harbor onto hospital boats for evacuation as soon as they had received emergency care and had been screened to eliminate malingerers. The Quartermaster's Department worked closely with the Medical Department in this endeavor, but casualties were soon coming in as fast as they could be sent off. Medical officers shipped almost 1,300 patients north on 2 June alone, but on 4 June, when they sent off a similar number, 1,460 still remained at the White House depot, and McParlin was forced to turn to the Sanitary Commission to supplement his nursing force."
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