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Calvin Shedd letter to dear ones, November 27, 1862

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Title	Calvin Shedd letter to dear ones, November 27, 1862
Creator	Shedd, Calvin (1826-1891)
Link to transcription	http://scholar.library.miami.edu/shedd/letters/62nov27.html
Summary	Shedd writes home on Thanksgiving wishing he could be with his family. He relates a story of an accident where a soldier is shot and not expected to live. In another tale about shooting, he tells how he was close to being shot while drilling the soldiers in target duty on a foggy morning.
Subject	Shedd, Calvin -- Correspondence Shedd, S. Augusta United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 7th. Company A Florida -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Enfield (New Hampshire)
Genre	Correspondence
Date	1862-11-27
Coverage Temporal	1860-1870
Coverage Spatial	Saint Augustine (Florida)
Physical description	1 letter (4 pages); 1 envelope
Language	eng
Repository	University of Miami Libraries. Special Collections
Collection Title	Calvin Shedd Papers
Collection No.	ASM0383
Container	Box No. 1; Folder No. 3; Folder Title: Oct - Dec 1862
Copyright	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Object ID	asm0383000041
Type	Text

Title	Page 1
Full Text	St. Augustine Thanksgiving Eve 1862 Dear Ones at Home How many times I have thought of you today & wished I might be with you. The Day has been very pleasant but cool I have had some roast Pork & Pudding but have eaten the least I ever did at Thanksgiving This morning we had a sad accident here at the Fort culpably carless one of the Guards forgetting for a moment that his Piece was loaded in a playful manner raised it as if to fire & at the same time gave the command ready, aim, fire & he did fire & hit one of his comrades in the left Breast the Ball passing through his left Lung within one 1 1/2 inches of his Heart, then passing through another man's wrist & hit another man's Gun glancing from that to
Object ID	asm0383000041
Digital ID	asm03830000410001001

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