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Calvin Shedd letter to wife, S. Augusta Shedd, June 9, 1862

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Title	Calvin Shedd letter to wife, S. Augusta Shedd, June 9, 1862
Creator	Shedd, Calvin (1826-1891)
Link to transcription	http://scholar.library.miami.edu/shedd/letters/62jun09.html
Summary	Shedd describes the great heat of the tropics in June; several men seem to have dropped dead from the heat. He describes a mishap during a gun drill that almost injured men and officers.
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	1862-06-09
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. 2; Folder Title: May - Sep 1862
Copyright	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Object ID	asm0383000034
Type	Text

Title	Page 1
Full Text	Fort Jefferson June 9th 62 3 PM Dear Wife I hear that a mail leaves here this Eve I have nothing to write but will send you a line if it is not quite so bright. I am pretty well in fact quite as well as one could expect in this climate. it is tremendous hot here today. two men died yesterday one was sick only 13 hours the other had been sick before in the Hospital & was discharged from it a day or two ago. his Orderly put him on fatigue he said he was sick & not able the Orderly told him he was not sick & if he did not go to work he would put him on Guard. He went to work a little while then went to the Hospital & Died in a few hours, the lives of many of us will lay at the Doors of some of the Officers the Curses of the men against them are loud & deep
Object ID	asm0383000034
Digital ID	asm03830000340001001

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