Calvin Shedd letter to wife, S. Augusta Shedd, children and brother, March 2, 1862

              March 2, 1862

Off Fort Jefferson at Anchor 1/2 mile from Shore. We arrived here this morning at 10 oclock and at 2 oclock I recd yours of the 16th the mail leaves at 6 this eve I recd your other letter when we were leaving NY coming down from the harbor was very glad to hear from you and the money I write in haste this time. We have been 17 days on the passage in the Barque Tycoon 4 Cos on board 6 Cos on the ship which has not arrived. a few days out a man of Co A died and was cast into the sea this morning one of our company by the name of Dewey died just as they dropped Anchor. They are to bury him on the Island. I was not Sea Sick but want of sleep and my cold made me sick for the first ten days out my finger has been so bad that I could not write on the passage it is better now it will peel off nail and all in a few days it has been a bad Finger it is as warm as June or July if it was not for the Sea breeze we should die almost my Finger is so stiff I cannot write very well