May 7, 1863, Semi-Weekly News (San Antonio, Texas)
(Communicated.)
Why is it, while our attention is so often called to our hospitals in Galveston, in Arkansas and in Virginia, that nothing is said or done for our own sick and suffering soldiers here at home?Why should they be kept in “durance vile,” in a hot, close, unhealthy place, in one of the noisiest, dustiest, and most public streets in the city, a miserable situation and a badly ventilated house, while at the same time the fine building, containing 18 rooms, situated on the Arsenal grounds, which are so well adapted for hospital purposes, where the fevered brow of the sufferer could be fanned by the cool invigorating breezes and his appetite tempted by the fresh fruits and vegetables which are cultivated on the place at the expense of the Government, is occupied as a private residence by an officer, with the rank of Major, and therefore entitled to but three rooms?Why it should be so is a mystery, and looks very much as if “there is something rotten in Denmark.”The matter should be investigated.
