The Archives and Special Collections Department at the University of Miami Library houses a series of remarkable letters written by Calvin Shedd, a carpenter from New Hampshire, who enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers and served the Union Army during the Civil War from 1862 - 1863. In these letters to his wife and three young daughters, Shedd recorded the debilitating physical hardships, the incredible tedium and the ever-present dangers of military life in Key West, Fort Jefferson and St. Augustine, Florida. [...] The letters of Calvin Shedd, edited and reproduced here for the first time, tell a story of personal integrity and sacrifice in the words of a simple man who lived in a turbulent, complicated time. The Shedd letters add another fascinating source to our national reservoir of primary source materials relating to the Civil War. This virtual publication of the Calvin Shedd letters located the University of Miami Library, the University of South Carolina Library, and the Dartmouth College Library, is supplemented with a variety of visual images and annotated footnotes designed to enhance the eloquent words of a New Hampshire carpenter. [self-description] All letters are made accessible as transcripts.