January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly
According to a dispatch in the Herald, terrible suffering already exists at Charleston. The “troops who have volunteered and presented themselves for service are camped in unhealthy locations, and, in consequence of rain, swamps, and miasma, are suffering from disease. No vessels loading, no business doing, women weeping, and men overcome by sickness, and the city in the hands of a mob, is the bulletin travelers present of the condition of things at the present time.”