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Calvin Shedd letter to wife, S. Augusta Shedd and children, March 26, 1862

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Title	Calvin Shedd letter to wife, S. Augusta Shedd and children, March 26, 1862
Creator	Shedd, Calvin (1826-1891)
Link to transcription	http://scholar.library.miami.edu/shedd/letters/62mar26.html
Summary	Shedd describes the routine of his days and the progress of the disease at camp. He provides advice to his wife about affairs at home.
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	1862-03-26
Coverage Temporal	1860-1870
Coverage Spatial	Fort Jefferson (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. 1; Folder Title: Jan - Apr 1862
Copyright	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Object ID	asm0383000014
Type	Text

Title	Page 1
Full Text	Fort Jefferson, Fla., March 26,1862 7 PM Dear Wife & Children I wrote you three days ago and will drop you another line for I was so fortunate & happy to receive yours of March 2d this PM was very glad to hear you were all well. I presume this will go from Key West that is if Smith goes in the steam in the same Mail with the other for the Mail Boat leaves here early in the morning. I am better than I was at the time of writing before so as to be out considerable I have a rather bad Diahroar that is easier than it was this morning think I shall be well of it in a day or two I never had the Headache before this scrape in my life. We are in the extreme southern end of Dixie away from everything and everybody we get no news till it is three weeks old it is rumored here that Manassas Richmond Norfolk & New Orleans are taken but dont suppose the whole of
Object ID	asm0383000014
Digital ID	asm03830000140001001

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