The Calvin Shedd Papers > Background > Water Condensers
G. The Civil War in Florida: A Military History. Vol III: Florida's
Key's & Fevers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: L. G. Schmidt, 1989.
|May 25, 1862
was provided by channeling the rains from the fort's barbette through channels in the
interior walls, to filter trays filled with sand; and finally to the 114 cisterns located
under the fort which held 1,231,200 gallons of water....Two steam condensers were
available during the war, and distilled 7,000 gallons of tepid water per day for a
separate system of reservoirs located in the northern section of the parade ground near
the officers quarters." (Schmidt, pp. XXXV).