May 28, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)
We were gratified yesterday by receiving a long visit from the talented representative in Congress of the San Antonio District, who gave us a great deal of valuable information, and buoyed us up with his testimony of the unwavering confidence in our cause, exhibited by the people all over the Confederacy. After hearing his description of our hospitals, and being cheered with the information that the sick and wounded of our army were cared for as men should be, we felt a desire to repel the wholesale slanders, which are so frequently written in relation to the people at home. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been sent to the army by the liberality and patriotism of our men and women and instead of the sick soldier and dying volunteer being neglected and forgotten, we are told that their quarters are made comfortable, and their hospitals “kept like a parlor.” Who does it? The women of our State have toiled in the good cause, and the men have given them glorious encouragement by their never failing liberality–Soldiers’ wives and families too, are better cared for in Texas than in any other State, and we hope to hear of no more sweeping denunciations of those who are not on the field of battle. Col. Wilcox gives a glowing description of Lee’s army–no profanity, no bickering among officers, no backbiting or jealousy, but a harmony and unity wonderful to behold. Each private bears himself as if were a hero, and they go to the battlefield certain of being victorious. There is no such army in the world.