About July 1, 1862, the British steamer Victoria ran the blockade and docked at Sabine Pass, carrying munitions and an unwanted stowaway, called "yellow jack" (yellow fever)in the nineteenth-century vernacular. A boy named Hartsfield, who had visited aboard the ship, caught the disease first, and within three weeks, all five members of his family were dead. The local physician, a young Scotsman name Dr. Murray, failed to recognize the symptoms of the disease, and by the time that Sarah Vosburg, who had nursed the Hartsfield family, gave the alarm, many citizens, particularly those connected with the stores, the hotel and boarding houses, were already infected. About 200 or more civilians caught the disease, and at least a hundred of them died. Among the victims were Julia Sweet Burgett, the widow of Sidney A. Sweet (copied)
About July 1, 1862, the British steamer Victoria ran the blockade and docked at Sabine Pass, carrying munitions and an unwanted stowaway, called "yellow jack" (yellow fever)in the nineteenth-century vernacular. A boy named Hartsfield, who had visited aboard the ship, caught the disease first, and within three weeks, all five members of his family were dead. The local physician, a young Scotsman name Dr. Murray, failed to recognize the symptoms of the disease, and by the time that Sarah Vosburg, who had nursed the Hartsfield family, gave the alarm, many citizens, particularly those connected with the stores, the hotel and boarding houses, were already infected. About 200 or more civilians caught the disease, and at least a hundred of them died. Among the victims were Julia Sweet Burgett, the widow of Sidney A. Sweet (copied)
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