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The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier (The Calvin Shedd Letters)
URL: http://scholar.library.miami.edu/shedd/letters.html

Description:
Transcriptions of letters from Calvin Shedd to his family during the Civil War. Includes a complete roster of the New Hampshire Seventh Regiment Volunteers (in which he served for the Union Army). This wonderful look at an everyday soldier's experiences during the Civil War conveys the boredom as well as the fighting. Biographical and background information on the war is included. From the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of Miami Library.

Author:
Vogel, Ruthanne D.; Brown, William E., Jr.

Publisher:
Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Florida -- History
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives

LII Database Information:
Record 7679 created by on 12/13/2002
Last modification on 01/13/2009
Published: 12/13/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7679