Texas City Camp A Swamp.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 9, 1913:
Seven Thousand American Regulars Sleep Over Sea of Mud.
Special to The New York Times.
    GALVESTON, March 8.— Pitiful is the word that best describes the conditions existing in Texas City, where 7,000 United States regulars are encamped. For two days it has rained steadily, and the result is a camp which averages from one to six feet deep in mud, several of the regimental camps being entirely submerged from one to three feet.
    Never before in recent years was the army afflicted with such a camp as that which the War Department has provided for its soldiers at Texas City, and yet up to the present moment no move has been made to rectify conditions which practically every army officer describes as intolerable.
    In the Sixth Cavalry camp the mud is several feet deep. In one of the infantry camps, it was said to-night, the men were sleeping on cots under which there was from one to three feet of water.
    This in brief is the situation at "Camp Misery," and unless the War Department takes action soon the opinion is general that the best sanitariums in the army cannot prevent an epidemic of serious illness among the troops who are marooned in the Texas City swamp.