SEPTEMBER 21, 1864:
The
Galveston (TX) Weekly News (actually
published in Houston for much of the war) reports on conditions in the coastal
city:
Sickness has
continued to spread quite rapidly within the last two days, and it is now
admitted, by even "the respectable physicians," that it is an
epidemic. The mortality thus far, has been greater than usual at the first
introduction of yellow fever.
There is great
dissatisfaction among the troops stationed here on account of the scarcity of
supplies in the Commissary Department. This should be remedied. There can be no
necessity for a lack of food in a State producing such a vast surplusage of all
commissary supplies, if agents were efficient in their business. Farmers have
generally exhibited great liberality in furnishing our troops the necessaries
of life, and will not be wanting now, if properly appealed to.
