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		<title>December 31, 1863: Epilogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of a signally important year for the young United States (only 87 years old), a year which began with the issuing of an Emancipation Proclamation applying only to slaves in rebelling states, yet which ended with the first of several bills proposing amendments which would totally prohibit slavery throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 27-29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio&#8217;s last entry for 1863 describes the action on Christmas day ( [BBR] pp.YY):
Christmas day was cold and windy. The only noteworthy event in camp was the arrival of a mail. Besides fatigue parties a detail for grand guard of two hundred and fifty men went out under Captain Pope. Our rifles had sounded their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 43rd letter to the Mercury
Mercury, January 7, 1864 [OAF]
Morris Island, Dec. 26, 1863
Strategy and Common Sense
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last there has been nothing extraordinary occurred in military affairs, and the indications are that nothing will occur between now and spring, unless brought on by the enemy. The whole face of nature now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-12-25] Official Commendation of Negro Soldiers.; HEADQUARTERS, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS
 [1863-12-25] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE N.Y. TIMES. THE ORGANIZATION OF NEGRO TROOPS.

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		<title>December 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Notable today: Captain Luis Emilio, born in 1844, is 19 years old today.  He has commanded Company E since May 23, and has intermittently commanded the entire regiment since the assault on Fort Wagner on July 18. He has been fighting in the Union army since 1861 (when he was 16 years old).
NYTimes archive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-12-20] THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH.; Condition of the Contrabands. Extract from a private letter.

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		<title>December 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 42nd letter to the Mercury

Mercury, January 6, 1864 [OAF]
Morris Island, Dec. 19, 1863
Charleston Harbor Supposed To Be Clear Of Obstructions
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last letter, we have been on tiptoe, expecting to see or hear the iron fleet making an effort to get into Charleston harbor; but still the Philadelphia haunts the waters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 16-18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes the shooting of a deserter ( [BBR] p.143):

Late in the afternoon of December 17 the Fifty-fourth with all the troops was formed to see a deserter shot. The unfortunate man was Joseph Lane, a drafted soldier of the Third New Hampshire. On November 28 he started from Morris Island toward James. At last, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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The first bill supporting a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery (ultimately the Thirteenth Amendment) was introduced in the House of Representatives today by James Mitchell Ashley of Ohio.   The final text as adopted on December 6, 1865 is presented here:


XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio reports on yet another incident in the pay controversy ( [BBR] pp.142-143):

To carry out the provisions of the Act for the relief of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, Maj. James Sturgis, accompanied by Mr. E. W. Kinsley, a public-spirited citizen, arrived at our camp December 12. They had previously visited the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 41st letter to the Mercury

Mercury, December 28, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Dec. 12, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The week just past has been one of unusual interest in the Department of the South. The first item is the loss of one of the iron monitors, on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 6th. The cause of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 9-11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio presents Theodore Tilton&#8217;s piece from the Boston Journal  ( [BBR] pp.136-138):

Theodore Tilton, in a communication to the Boston &#8220;Journal,&#8221; dated New York, Dec. 12, 1863, quotes from a letter received by him &#8220;from a Massachusetts soldier in the Fifty-fourth &#8220;: â€”

&#8220;A strange misapprehension exists as to the matter of pay, and it pains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 5-7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-12-05] DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH.; Charleston not Taken Where the Blame Belongs Treatment of the Colored Troops.
 [1863-12-05] REPORTS VIA BOSTON.
 [1863-12-05] NEWS FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR.; Cessation of the Fire Against Sumter. The Bombardment of the Other Forts Commenced. MORE SHELLS THROWN INTO THE CITY.
 [1863-12-06] The Anti-Slavery Convention in Philadelphia.; SPEECHES [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 2-4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes the beginning of December ( [BBR] p. 140):

December came in, cold and rainy, for the winter weather had set in. The day, however, was a happy and memorable one, for news was received of General Grant&#8217;s great victory at Missionary Ridge, and every fort fired a salute, causing spiteful replies from the enemy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 40th letter to the Mercury and Stephens&#8217;s tenth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Mercury, December 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 28, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has developed nothing new in military affairs that we are aware of. The bombardment of Sumter seems to have been relaxed since last Wednesday, but what the object is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 24-27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes another incident in the pay dispute ( [BBR] pp.135-140):
News was received the last of November that the matter of pay had come up in a new form. Governor Andrew in his message recommended the provisions of an Act which passed the Massachusetts Legislature November 16 in words as follows: &#8221; An Act to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 39th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, December 4, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 21, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since the last record of events in this department, the bombardment of Sumter is still kept up night and day, and still the gallant rebels are masters of the situationÂ â€”Â which, by the way, is a severe comment on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 19-20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 19th was the dedication of the National Cemetary at Gettysburg, where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his renowned Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 15-17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-11-15] Siege of Charleston; AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE SITUATION THE REBEL DEFENCES,
 [1863-11-15] The Massachusetts Legislature.
 [1863-11-17] THE SIEGE OF FORT SUMTER.; A Terrible Fire Poured into the Ruins: Two of the Garrison Killed and One Wounded on Friday Night.
 [1863-11-17] Condition of the Contrabands in South Carolina.; STATEMENT OF MRS. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 38th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 26, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 14, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Still the bombardment of Sumter progresses, and still the rebels are masters of it. The firing during the week has been principally carried on by mortars, keeping it up all night. From the long continued silence of our long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 12-13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes more promotions ( [BBR] pp.135):

Colonel Hallowell on his return used every means to have the many detached and detailed men returned to the colors, as heavy working parties of from one hundred to two hundred men were still called for to labor on the new works. Our first instalment of furloughed men having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 8-10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-11-08] WHO HOLDS FORT SUMTER?; VERY GOOD NEWS, IF TRUE. Reported Surrender of the Work to Our Forces. The Old Flag Once More Waving Over the Ramparts. A Pennsylvania Regiment Garrisoning the Ruins. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY. A LATER REPORT FROM THE REBELS. The Bombardment FurisoulyProgressing.
 [1863-11-08] THE REBELLION.
 [1863-11-08] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 37th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 17, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 7, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As I closed my letter last Sunday the guns were booming with a dull, heavy sound, and have been ever since, although not quite so many have been engaged during the past week as the one preceding. Sumter still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 3-6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-11-03] BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER.; Heavy Firing Opened Last Wednesday. Twelve Hundred and Fifteen Shots Fired During the First 24 Hours. THREE OF THE MONITORS ENGAGED REPORTS FROM THE REBELS
 [1863-11-04] FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR.; The Second Bombardment of Fort Sumter. CONFIRMATION OF THE REBEL REPORTS. The Speedy Destruction of the Work Considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 31, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 36th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 11, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 31, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been one of active operations here with us. Last Monday at noon, the bombardment of Sumter recommenced with a vigor unparalled in the annals of warfare. By reference to my notes, jotted down as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 25-30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the renewed bombardment of Ft. Sumter, and the renaming of captured works ( [BBR] pp.133-134):
Our new and old works being in readiness at Cumming&#8217;s Point, what General Gillmore calls the &#8221; second bombardment of Sumter &#8221; was begun October 26. Its purpose was to prevent guns being mounted there, and to cut down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 35th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 3, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 24, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”We have no news of any great interest, save what would be considered contraband. Items are as scarce as birds&#8217; teeth; and everything and everybody is quiet as a burglar when the police are around. The rebels keep up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 21-22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-10-21] The Quota of Massachusetts.
 [1863-10-22] OUR MORRIS ISLAND CORRESPONDENCE.; All Quiet&#8211;Admiral Dahlgren Determined to Push Ahead
 [1863-10-22] FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR.; The Position of Our Land and Naval Forces.

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		<title>October 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-10-18] CHARLESTON AND PORT ROYAL.
 [1863-10-18] The Negro Soldier Question.

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		<title>October 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 34th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 5, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 17, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last, little has occurred worth mentioning in affaires de guerre. But we may hope for something pretty soon, as there are indications that powder is soon to be used in very large quantities. To give the reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 13-16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes personnel changes in October ( [BBR] pp.132-3):
Henry N. Hooper, formerly captain, Thirty-second Massachusetts Infantry, commissioned major of the Fifty-fourth, arrived October 16, and relieved Captain Emilio of the command. It was his fortune to lead the regiment for a longer period and in more actions than any other officer, owing to the assignment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 33rd letter to the Mercury

Mercury, October 20, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 10, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The monotony of life was somewhat broken last Monday night, October 5th, by an insane attempt by the rebels to either capture or destroy the Ironsides. Their plans to destroy the vessel were to place torpedoes under her and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 4-8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Andrew replaced the regiments state flag ( [BBR] pp. 131):
To replace the State color lost on July 18, Governor Andrew caused a new one to be forwarded to the Fifty-fourth. Its receipt on October 2 was attended with great enthusiasm, the rousing cheers of the men being heard for a mile around.
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		<title>October 2-3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 32nd letter to the Mercury and Stephens&#8217;s ninth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African, which he addressed directly to one of the two brothers publishing and editing the newspaper:
Mercury, October 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 3, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”All quiet here, so far as war news is concerned. Â We hear of nothing to cause any great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 29-30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-09-29] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; Gen. Gillmore Still Mounting Siege Guns.
 [1863-09-30] THE REBELLION.
 [1863-09-30] FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR.; THE PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS. PLANTING GUNS UNDER FIRE&#8230;The Colored Brigade
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		<title>September 27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes another incident in the on-going pay disputes, which would last until the U.S. Congress took action on September 28, 1864 ( [BBR] pp.130-131):
Paymaster Usher arrived in camp September 27, ready to pay the men #10 per month from enlistment, less $3 per month deducted for clothing. Upon the non-commissioned officers being assembled, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 31st letter to the Mercury
Mercury, October 8, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept. 26, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last epistle to the &#8220;elect in Bedford,&#8221; there has nothing very eventful transpired. How long we are doomed to this monotonous state of affairs, I can&#8217;t presume to say; the army has done about all in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 24-25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes settling into the (long) siege of Charleston proper ( [BBR] pp.128-130):
Morris Island was ours; but no sooner had the enemy evacuated than Wagner, Gregg, and the intervening ground were daily subjected to a fire from the James and Sullivan&#8217;s Island batteries.
&#8230;
As Forts Wagner and Gregg were ordered to be turned for offensive purposes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding sent the following letter concerning the pay controversy directly to President Abraham Lincoln:
Letter to President Abraham Lincoln
Morris Island [S.C.]. Â Sept 28th 1863.
Your Excelency will pardon the presumtion of an humble individual like myself, in addressing you. but the earnest Solicitation of my Comrades in Arms, besides the genuine interest felt by myself in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-09-20] OPERATIONS AT CHARLESTON.; Arrival of the McClellan with 100 Prisoners Gen. Gillmore Mounting Siege Guns at Cumming&#8217;s Point to Bombard Charleston.
 [1863-09-20] The Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg.; AN INTERESTING REPORT BY COL. MANN, OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS.
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		<title>September 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 29th letter to the Mercury and Stephens&#8217;s eighth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Mercury, October 1, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept 19, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”&#8221;All quiet&#8221; in this department of the South is a very appropriate mode of expressing the operations the past week with us here. Although you may expect at no distant day to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 14-18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 16, General Quincy Gillmore issue this general order to all of the troops in his command ( [BBR] pp.126-127):
DEPARTMENT OP THE SOUTH,
MORRIS ISLAND, S. C, Sept. 16, 1863.
It is with no ordinary feelings of gratification and pride that the brigadier-general commanding is enabled to congratulate this army upon the signal success which has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 10-13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-09-10] The Operations in Charleston Harbor.
 [1863-09-10] HIGHLY IMPORTANT.; Glorious Progress of the Operations Against Charleston. CAPTURE OF FORT WAGNER. Evacuation of the Whole of Morris Island by the Rebels.
 [1863-09-10] PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE OPERATIONS; Another Bombardment of Fort Sumter 
 [1863-09-11] OPERATIONS AGAINST CHARLESTON; Nineteen Guns and Seventyfive Men Captured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 28th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, September 21, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept. 9, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”At last Wagner and Gregg have the old flag waving over them. Sumter is a mass of shapeless ruins; Gregg is occupied by our forces, a small detachment of men, to repair and hold it. The agreeable fact was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 6-8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the culmination of the siege in the final fall of Fort Wagner ( [BBR] pp.120-126):
Early on the 5th the land batteries,&#8221; Ironsides,&#8221; and two monitors opened1 a terrific bombardment on Wagner which lasted forty-two hours. Under its protection our sap progressed in safety. Wagner dared not show a man, while the approaches were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 27th letter to the Mercury
Morris Island, Sept. 5, 1863 [OAF]
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As there is nothing to record the past week, other than the (insignificant?) death of a dozen pickets, or as many more laborers in trenches, of course you must expect a dull letter. We had hoped the weather would continue cool, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Stephens&#8216; s seventh letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Morris Island, S.C., [VT]
Sept. 4, 1863.
Mr. Editor: There is so much of exciting interest to communicate, and there is so much danger of violating the orders of Gen. Gillmore regarding &#8220;contraband information,&#8221; that one scarcely knows where to commence or where to end. The recent order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 31-September 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes appoaching climax of the Ft. Wagner siege ( [BBR] pp.116-119):
With our capture of the ridge on the 26th the last natural cover was attained. Beyond for two hundred yards stretched a strip of sand over which the besiegers must advance. It seemed impossible to progress far, as each attempt to do so resulted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 26th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, September 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 30, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has developed nothing very stirring that I am aware of, though there may be a number of manufactured &#8220;tales&#8221; in the mail gleanings, or &#8220;the very latest by telegraph.&#8221; But for the information of those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 25-29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the grinding advance down the beach to Ft. Wagner ( [BBR] pp.114-116):
Captain Partridge about August 23 applied for sick leave and shortly went north. In consequence Captain Emilio again became the senior officer and was at times in charge of the regiment until the middle of October. On the 23d the brigade was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this letter to General Gillmore, Shaw&#8217;s father halted the attempts to retrieve Shaw&#8217;s body for reburial elsewhere:
New York, Aug. 24, 1863
Brigadier-General Gillmore, Commanding Department of the South.
Sir,&#8211;I take the liberty to address you because I am informed that efforts are to be made to recover the body of my son, Colonel Shaw of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 25th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, September 7, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 23, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Supposing a detailed account of the operations now in progress in this quarter would prove interesting to your readers, I have taken the pains to jot them down as they occur, trusting to the leniency of the commanding officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 17-22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the next stage of the siege ( [BBR] pp.111-113):
Shortly after daybreak, August 17, the first bombardment of Sumter began from the land batteries, the navy soon joining in action. The fire of certain guns was directed against Wagner and Gregg. Sumter was pierced time, and again until the walls looked like a honeycomb. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 24th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, August 29, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 16, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As stringent orders have been recently issued relative to giving information in regard to military matters here, which is a very proper course and necessary, the amount of news is rather meagre, so I will violate no &#8220;General Orders&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 14-15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-08-14] MILITARY NEWS TO BE SUPPRESSED.; A STRINGENT ORDER FROM GEN. GILLMORE
 [1863-08-14] The First Pennsylvania Colored Regiment
 [1863-08-14] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; Arrival of the Arago, with Advices to the 10th&#8230;
 [1863-08-15] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; Official Dispatches from Admiral Dahlgren.
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		<title>August 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass served as a recruiter for the 54th and for other units in several regions of the country.  Here is a letter to him regarding this:
War Department
Adjutant Generals Office
Washington DC Augt 13, 1863
Sir,
I am instructed by the Secretary of War to direct you to proceed to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and on your arrival there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 10-12, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the tedious work of building for the siege( [BBR] p.110):
&#8230; No rain fell from July 18 until August 13, which was favorable for the siege work, as the sand handled was dry and light. This dryness, however, rendered it easily displaced by the wind, requiring constant labor in re-covering magazines, bombproofs, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 9, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 23rd letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, August 21, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 9, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last weekly melange, the situation remains about the same in this department. The 55th regiment, Col. N. P. Â Hallowell commanding, arrived here from Newbern last Monday, and on Tuesday the regiment was introduced to Messrs. Shovel and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 8, 1863</title>
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 [1863-08-08] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON
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		<title>August 7, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Stephens&#8217;s 6th letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
In Camp, [VT]
Morris Island, S.C.,
Aug. 7/ 1863.
Mr. Editor:
Since I wrote my last letter the startling news of the mobs, riots, incendiarism, pillage and slaughter, recently so rife in the North, particularly in New York City, has reached here. You may judge what our thoughts and feelings were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 4-5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio ( [BBR] p.109):
August 5 the men were informed that the Government was ready to pay them $ 10 per month, less $3 deducted for clothing. The offer was refused, although many had suffering families. About this time a number of men wereÂ detached, or detailed, as clerks, butchers, and as hands on the steamers &#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 22nd letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, August 16, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, August 3, 1863
Messrs. Editors:â€”
The latest news from this department is the capture of a blockade runner having on board heavy Whitworth guns. The guns captured are now in course of erection on the north end of the Island to bombard the fort, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 1-2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-08-01] Military Affairs.; OBSEQUIES OF GEN. STRONG&#8230;
 [1863-08-01] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; OFFICIAL REPORT OF GEN. GILLMORE
 [1863-08-02] The Duty of Colored Men to Enlist.
 [1863-08-02] THE OPERATIONS AT CHARLESTON.; A TRIP UP THE HARBOR ON A FLAG-OF-TRUCE BOAT.
 [1863-08-02] Funeral of Gen. Strong
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		<title>July 30-31, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Confederate threats concerning black prisoners of war and their white officers, on July 30, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issue the following executive order:
Executive Order &#8211; Retaliation
It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens, of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further description from Emilio ( [BBR], p.108):
&#8230;Orders came on the 26th that, owing to the few officers and lack of arms, the Fifty-fourth should only furnish fatigue details.
Quartermaster Ritchie, who was sent to Hilton Head, returned on the 29th with the officers, men, and camp equipage from St. Helena, and tents were put up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 25-28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio quotes the dispatches of several newspaper correspondents concerning the performance of the 54th ( [BBR] pp.93-94).  Gen. Strong was wounded in the assault and died on July 30, 1863.
Samuel W. Mason, correspondent of the New York &#8220;Herald,&#8221; on Morris Island, wrote under date of July 19, 1863, of the regiment: â€”
&#8221; I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 21st letter to the Mercury describes the aftermath of the assault:
Mercury, August 4, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, July 24
Messrs. Editors:Â â€”
Since my letter of the 20th last, our forces have been busily engaged, preparing for the grand sortie on Wagner and Sumter. When everything is complete, you may expect to hear of decisive results. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the regiment&#8217;s slow recovery and the beginnings of work on the siege of Ft. Wagner ( [BBR], pp.105-107):
Early on the morning of July 19, the men of the Fifty-fourth were aroused, and the regiment marched down the beach, making camp near the southern front of the island at a point where the higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter from Lieutenant James W. Grace describing the combined action appears in [OAF] pp.39-40:
To: Brigadier General R.A. Pierce, Readville
July 22
Knowing your deep interest in the officers and men of the Regiment, I thought I would let you know how we are after our Skirmish and retreat from James Island and Fight at Morris Island.
We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephens describes the James Island action and the assault on Ft. Wagner in his fifth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Morris Island, S.C., [VT]
July 21,1863.
Mr. Editor:
The month of July has been an eventful one for the 54th. We left our camp at St. Helena on theâ€”inst., and landed at James Island on theâ€”, fought the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 20, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding describes the James Island action and the assault in his 20th letter to the Mercury, and Lewis Douglass describes the battle in a letter to his wife:
Mercury, August 1, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, July 20, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”At last we have something stirring to record. The 54th, the past week, has proved itself twice in battle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the aftermath of the assault ( [BBR], pp.86-93):
Although the storming column and supports did not move forward with a close formation and promptness in support of the Fifty-fourth, which might have won Wagner that night, their attacks when made were delivered with a gallantry and persistence that made their severe losses the more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 18, 1863</title>
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The (second) assault on Fort Wagner took place today, with 600 men of the 54th Massachusetts in the lead of three brigades.  The regiment reached the top of the parapet, but was repulsed.  Shaw was killed at the top of the parapet, rallying the 54th forward.   Of the 600 men of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 17, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the immediate overnight march from James Island to Morris Island and the preparations for the assault on the 18th ( [BBR] pp.63-72):
General Terry was ordered to evacuate James Island that night. At about five o&#8217;clock P. M., the Fifty-fourth was relieved by the Fifty-second Pennsylvania, and returned to the bivouac. While awaiting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 16, 1863</title>
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The Confederates attacked on James Island today, and the men of the 54th distinguished themselves by their steadfastness.  Here is Emilio&#8217;s description of the battle ( [BBR], pp.57-63):

In the gray of early dawn of July 16, the troops in bivouac on James Island were awakened by dropping shots, and then heavy firing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 15, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie; it will turn out to be his last to her:
James&#8217; Island, S.C. [BCF]
July 15,1863
My Dearest Annie,
Your letters of June 3d, 14th, and 28th, and July 3d, 4th, and 5th, came to-day, and I felt horridly ashamed of myself for having blamed you for not taking care to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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The run-up to the Confederate attack is described by Emilio ( [BBR], pp.55-56):

Between the 10th and 16th there had arrived for the enemy from Georgia and North Carolina two four-gun batteries and six regiments of infantry. Beauregard also reduced his force on Morris Island and concentrated on James, under command of Brig.-Gen. Johnson Hagood. Gillmore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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A (fragment) of a letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:

July 13,1863 [BCF]
My Dearest Annie,
I sent the family letter to Father, to this date, and you will get it very soon after this. You will see from it what we have been doing lately.
I should have been Major of the Second now if I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 10-12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes ( [BBR], pp.51-55) the lead-up to the 54th&#8217;s first major action:

Heavy cannonading was heard in the direction of MorrisÂ Island, at 5 A. M. on the 10th. Before night word cameÂ that all the ground south of Fort Wagner on Morris IslandÂ was captured with many guns and prisoners. This newsÂ was received with rousing cheers by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie, begun today, extended on the 11th, and completed on the 13:

Stono River, S.C. [RGS][BCF]
July 9,1863 (James&#8217; Island)
My Darling Annie,
Just after closing my last, on the envelope of which I said we were ordered away from St. Helena&#8217;s Island, we embarked on board the &#8220;Chasseur.&#8221; We sailed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes the beginning of the descent on James Island ( [BBR] pp.51-52):

All suspense regarding the employment of the Fifty-fourth ended July 8, with the receipt, about noon, of orders to move at an hour&#8217;s notice, taking only blankets and rations. Three hours after, the regiment began to embark, headquarters with seven companies finding transportation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter, dated the 6th, from Shaw to Brigade commander Brig. Gen. George C. Strong:

ST. HELENA ISLAND, July 6, 1863.  [BBR],p.49
BRIG.-GEN. GEORGE C. STRONG.
GENERAL, â€” I did not pay my respects to you before you left this post because I did not wish to disturb you when making your preparations for departure.
I desire, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Charles Douglass to his father Frederick Douglass â€”Â Charles originally enlisted in the 54th, but transferred to the 55th Mass. as it was forming in May, and later in 1864, transferred to the 5th Massachusets Cavalry (colored), a dismounted unit; together with a long letter from Shaw to his wife:
Readville Camp Meigs
July 6th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his mother, begun on the 3rd, extended on the 4th, and completed on the 6th:

July 3,1863[BCF]
Dearest Mother,
You will have been sometime without letters from me, when you receive this, as the &#8220;Arago&#8221; was not allowed to take a mail last week, I understand, because of the late movement on Charleston. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his father:

St. Helena I.[BCF]
July 4,1863
Dear Father,
All the troops, excepting the coloured Regiments, are ordered to FollyÂ Island. There will be a grand attack on Charleston, I suppose. I feel very much disappointed at being left behind, especially after Montgomery was promised by Genl Gilmore that we should have our share in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his friend and former fellow office from the 2nd Massachusetts, Charles Fessneden Morse.  On this day, Morse was fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg with the 2nd Massachusetts.  He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the day following. Today was the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes the beginning of the pay controversy and quotes Shaw&#8217;s letter to Gov. Andrew on the subject ( [BBR] pp.47-48). Notably, today was the second day of the ]]></description>
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		<title>July 1, 1863</title>
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Two letters from Shaw, to his father and to his wife&#8217;s sister Clem.  Notably: The Battle of Gettysburg began today.


St. Helena Island S.C.[BCF]
July 1, 1863
Dear Father,
In my last to Mother, I mentioned receipt of all your letters, and yesterday, your other two of the 22d ulto. came to hand, having gone first to Beaufort. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 30, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio described this period as follows ( [BBR], pp.46-48):
&#8230;Brig.-Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore had relieved General Hunter. Admiral John A. Dahlgren was to replace Admiral Dupont. Tidings of these changes, of Lee having crossed the Rappahannock, the capture of Harper&#8217;s Ferry, and the investment of Port Hudson, were received by the &#8220;Harriet A. Weed,&#8221; on June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 19th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, July 8, 1863 [OAF]
St. Helena Island, S.C., June 29
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Instead of going on another expedition, as we all expected and hoped, we find ourselves at the headquarters of the department, and great changes made in commanders; in fact, the changes had been made at least two weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Helena&#8217;s Island, S.C.[BCF]
June 28 1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note of the 20th came to me on board the &#8220;Benj. DeFord&#8221; just after I had sent my last ashoreâ€”also letters from Father of the 10, 13, 15, 18, 19 Inst. &#38; others from Annie, Effie &#38; Harry. Some of Annie&#8217;s have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-27] THE REBEL INVASION&#8230;  Gettysburgh in Possession of the Enemy&#8230;
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		<title>June 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephens&#8217;s fourth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African, and a letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:
June 1863. [VT]
Mr. Editor:
â€”Our regiment has been on the move ever since our arrival at Beaufort. Our active and brave leader, Col. Montgomery, gives none under his command time to rot, sicken and die in camp. No sooner does he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Steamer, off Hilton Head [BCF]
June 25,1863
Dear Mother,
I wrote Father yesterday that we were to return here. We sailed this morning at six, having been up all night loading the ship. I don&#8217;t know where we are to be sent now; it is supposed that Gillmore is going to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his father.  Noteworthy:  Lee&#8217;s invasion of the North accelerated today with Hill&#8217;s and Longstreet&#8217;s corps (the remainder of Lee&#8217;s army) beginning the crossing of the Potomac into Maryland.
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 24,1863
Dear Father,
Yours of the 9th came to hand last evening. At the same time we received news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-23] Convention of Colored Men Postponed.
 [1863-06-23] IMPORTANT FROM CHARLESTON.; Battle Between the Rebel Batteries on Morris Island&#8230;
 [1863-06-23] LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; LYNCH LAW IN NEWBURGH. A Colored Man Arrested for Rape, Taken from the Jail and Hung by a Mob.
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		<title>June 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 18th letter to the Mercury and a letter from Shaw to his father:
Mercury, July 8, 1863 [OAF]
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga., June 22
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last letter, there has been nothing important occurred in this department that I am aware of. In fact if anything important were to happen, in which our regiment was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-06-21] OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA.; DESTRUCTION OF SEMMESPORT. Two Hundred Negroes Hung and Shot at Alexandria by the Rebels.
 [1863-06-21] LIFE WITH THE CONTRABANDS.; The Sea Island Plantations. PLANTATION JEALOUSIES. THE PURCHASE OF FREEHOLDS&#8230;.
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		<title>June 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his brother-in-law Charles Russell Lowell, Jr (married to Shaw&#8217;s sister Effie) who was a colonel in the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry and was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek in October, 1864:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
June 20,1863
My dear Charley,
I received your kind letter before I left Readvilleâ€”and beg you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-19] OUR PORT ROYAL CORRESPONDENCE.; A Raid by a Negro Regiment Immense Destruction of Property The Freedman&#8217;sInquiry Commission &#8230;
 [1863-06-19] Negro Troops in Pennsylvania.; AN ORDER FROM GOV. CURTIN.
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		<title>June 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 18 1863
Dearest Mother,
We have received nothing since our first mail, which I mentioned in my last to you. Captain Rand arrived at Beaufort after we had left there, and your second note arrived at the same time with the first. I am very glad you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his his wife&#8217;s sister Clemence Haggerty:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
June 17,1863
My Dear Clem.,
You have probably heard from Annie of our adventures since we left Boston; that is, if my many letters reached her. We are entirely isolated here, and know nothing of what has been going on in other parts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-16] Emancipation in Missouri.
 [1863-06-16] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; &#8230;COMMISSIONS IN NEGRO REGIMENTS &#8230;
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		<title>June 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his sister.  Worthy of note: Lee&#8217;s second invasion of the North began today as Ewell&#8217;s Second Corps began crossing the Potomac river into Maryland.
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 15,1863
My Dear Effie,
I received yours of 31 May, day before yesterday. Before you receive this, you will know, from my letters to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 17th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, June 30, 1863 [OAF]
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga., June 14, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As intimated in my last letter, we left Beaufort last Monday morning. We did not know where we were going, and never found out until we dropped anchor off this Island on the morning of the 9th. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 13 1863
Dearest Mother,
Last evening I received your two letters of the 31st May, &#38;Â 1st Juneâ€”one from Annie, two from Father &#38; one from Effie. This is the first news I have had since I left home. I hope you have received all mine. This should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-12] GEN. FREMONT AND THE COLORED TROOPS.; Proposed Formation of a Fremont Legion &#8230;
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		<title>June 11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-11] Negro Soldiers The Question Settled and its Consequences.
 [1863-06-11] AN OFFICIAL REPORT FROM GEN. BANKS.; Operations to May 30 The Valor of the Negro Troops Indorsed.
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		<title>June 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the burning of Darien ([BBR]):
After a rather rough voyage of some eighty miles during the night, the &#8221; De Molay &#8221; dropped anchor at 6 A. M. [on the 9th] in the sound off the southern point of St. Simon&#8217;s Island.Â  Colonel Shaw landed and rode across the island to report to Colonel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
Tuesday, June 9,1863
My Dearest Annie,
We arrived at the southern point of this island at six this morning. I went ashore to report to Colonel Montgomery, and was ordered to proceed with my regiment to a place called &#8220;Pike&#8217;s Bluff,&#8221; on the inner coast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 16th letter to the Mercury, and a letter from Shaw to his father:
Beaufort, S. C, June 8th [OAF]
Messrs. Editors:
â€”We arrived at this town on the evening of the 4th, not debarking at Hilton Head. On the morning of the 5th, we left the steamer and marched to our camp ground about a quarter of [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-07] RUMORS AND NEGROES.
 [1863-06-07] Adjt.-Gen. Thomas&#8217; Advice to the Negroes.; HIS SPEECH TO THE CONTRABANDS AT MEMPHIS.
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		<title>June 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Beaufort [BCF]
June 6, 1863
Dear Mother,
The mail which was to have gone last night is still here, so I can send you a few lines.
Col. Montgomery sailed yesterday, and we shall go after him before long, I suppose.
This is an odd sort of place. All the original inhabitants are gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his father:
Beaufort, S.C. [BCF]
June 5 1863
Dear Father,
We came down from Hilton Head day before yesterday. I saw Col. Montgomery, who was about to embark for an expedition to Georgia. I immediately requested permission to go with him but was too late, and shall probably follow tomorrow or day after. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 15th letter to the Mercury, his first from South Carolina; Â three letters from Shaw â€” to his mother, his father, and his cousin, John Murray Forbes; and a letter from Maj.-General David Hunter (commanding the Department of the South) to Governor Andrew:
Mercury, June 19, 1863 [OAF]
Port Royal, June 3
Messrs. Editors:
â€”After a long passage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-06-02] The Abolitionist View of the War.

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		<title>June 1, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his (new) wife, Annie:
Steamer De Molay [BCF]
June 1,1863, Off Cape Hatteras
Dearest Annie,
We have got thus far on our voyage without accident, excepting the loss of Major Hallowell&#8217;s mare, which died this morning, and was consigned to the sea.
We left the wharf at 4 P.M., having been detained nearly two hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 31, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio (pp.35-36) provided this description of the voyage from Boston to Port Royal (the map Voyage from  Boston to Port Royal describes the route):

May 29, the sea was smooth all day, and the weather fine but not clear. Martha&#8217;s Vineyard and Nantucket were passed in the morning. At night a fine moon rose. Foggy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 08:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times provided further coverage of the regiment:
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-05-30] FIRST MASSACHUSETTS COLORED REGIMENT.; Appearance of the Men List of Officers, &#38;c.
 [1863-05-30] The Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment.
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		<title>May 29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported on the parade and departure of the regiment:
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-05-29] A COLORED REGIMENT.; The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment in the Field Review by Gov. Andrew and Staff The Regiment Embarked for Port Royal.
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		<title>May 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio ( [BBR]pp.31-33) describes the departure from the Readville camp and the parade through Boston to the departure on a steamer.  The map Parade Route Through Boston displays the parade route through Boston.
Gen. David Hunter, commanding the Department of the South, desired the Fifty-fourth sent to South Carolina. His wishes were gratified; for on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 26-27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-05-26] The Emancipation League of Boston.
 [1863-05-27] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. THE COMING DRAFT. REGULATIONS FOR NEGRO ENLISTMENTS. OFFICERS FOR NEGRO REGIMENTS&#8230;
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		<title>May 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 14th letter to the Mercury is the last to be written from the camp at Readville:
Mercury, May 26, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 24, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”My last letter I had supposed would be the last to be written from this camp, but so much for &#8220;newspaper yarns,&#8221; we are still here. This week has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-05-20] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; Progress of Recruiting for the Negro Regiments. Meeting in Aid of the Movement&#8230;.. COLORED SOLDIERS. MEETING OF COLORED PEOPLE.
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		<title>May 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported on the flag presentation ceremonies for the regiment.
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 [1863-05-19] Presentation of Colors to the Colored Massachusetts Regiment.; SPEECH OF GOV. ANDREW.
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		<title>May 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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The presentation of flags to the regiment occurred today.  Gooding&#8217;s 13th letter to the Mercury described the ceremonies, as did Shaw&#8217;s brief letter to his mother, and Emilio provided an extended description including full quotes of the speeches; a picture of the flags dating from after the war appears at right:
Mercury, May 20, 1863
Camp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
May 17 1863
Dear Mother,
We were very sorry not to find you in the train last night, and to hear that you were ill. Â Nellie arrived safely and is at present domiciled with Effie &#38; us at Mrs. Crehore&#8217;s.
Tomorrow, if it is not stormy, there are to be four-banners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 12th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, May 18, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 16
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As we fondly expected last week, the 54th is now full, and as &#8220;Artemas&#8221; expresses it, &#8220;it slopt over,&#8221; so the spilt ones are now the germ of another regiment, the 55th. The Journal of Commerce, some weeks since, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 13-14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 08:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-05-13] [S]pirit of the London Press.
 [1863-05-14] CHARLESTON IN ENGLAND.
 [1863-05-14] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; THE FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE&#8230;
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		<title>May 11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 08:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regiment reaches its full quota of 1,000 men today, and the overflow is used to start the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
A letter from Shaw to his father:
Readville [BCF]
May 11,1863
Dear Father,
I received your note, acknowledging my last from Lenox, this morning. Annie and I got to Boston, Saturday evening; coming the last part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 11th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, May 11, 1863  Gooding 
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 9
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been one of progress with the 54th: 68 more men will make it a full regiment, if all the men are retained, which I think is rather doubtful, as there is about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 7, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his sister:
Lenox [BCF]
May 7,1863
Dear Sue,
I have just received a telegram from Hallowell, saying that the Governor is going to send us off on the 20th. Please drop a line to Mother, and tell her this. We go down Saturday instead of Monday. O, how glum I feel! Colonel Hallowell remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his sister:
Lenox [BCF]
May 6,1863
My Dear Effie,
Annie and I shall be in Boston on Monday. Will you please tell Mrs. Crehore to expect us on Tuesday? Â No matter whether she wants us or not, we are coming. I was very glad to hear from Mother that Charley (&#8221;Katie&#8221;) had got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  Gooding &#8217;s tenth letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, May 6, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 4
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been one of encouragement and interest to the 54th; our muster is now 868 men, and this week I hope to chronicle the pleasing intelligence, &#8220;the 54th is full.&#8221; We have sufficient reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Lenox, Mass. [BCF]
May 3,1863
My dear Charley,
I can only guess at your whereabouts. The papers tell us that you are once more at work in good earnest. How I wish I were to take my share in this campaign, and that my future fighting were to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 1, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Stephens&#8217;s third letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Camp Meigs, Readville, Mass., [VT]
May 1, 1863.
There is quite a stir in the camp to-day. Mayday has adorned herself in sunshine and garlands of green. Hundreds are flocking here from Boston and its environs to witness the military evolutions of the 54th Reg. Mass. Vol., and never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George E.  Stephens joined Company B of the regiment today as a 1st Sergeant.  His letters to the New York Weekly Anglo-African began on March 18, 1863.  Five men altogether joined the regiment today.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-nine men joined the regiment on these three days.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-26] The Negro Regiments on the Mississippi.
 [1863-04-26] THE FIGHT IN CHARLESTON HARBOR.; A DETAILED ACCOUNT.
 [1863-04-26] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON; QUIET WITH THE ARMY. A COLORED REGIMENT, 
 [1863-04-28] Progress of Emancipation in Missouri.
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		<title>April 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  Gooding &#8217;s ninth letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, April 27, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 25
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week&#8217;s report of the 54th is encouraging, if not stirring. The number of recruits for the past week is 66 making a total of 740 men. Indeed, to see the men on dress parade, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his father:
Readville [BCF]
April 24 1863
Dear Father,
I ought to have written you long ago, that your man Vogelsang was accepted, and is a Sergeant in one of the new companies. He is very efficient. Â Mr. Wingate has probably told you the result of his visit. He didn&#8217;t like to accept the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-22] Editorial Article 1 &#8212; No Title; OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. THE CONTRABAND COMMISSION.
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		<title>April 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-nine men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-21] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; THE NEGRO TROOPS IN FLORIDA. THE BLACK SURGEON.
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		<title>April 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Charles Douglass &#8212; youngest son of Frederick Douglass &#8212; joined Company F of the regiment today.
This is  Gooding &#8217;s eighth letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, April 21, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 18
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been marked by nothing extraordinary with us here, excepting a share of fine weather, which must be considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwood Hallowell joined the regiment today as a Lieutenant Colonel.  Peter Vogelsang joined Company H of the regiment as a Sergeant today.  He was subsequently promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, and later commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and then as a 1st Lieutenant.


Two letters from Shaw, to his mother and to his father:
Readville [BCF]
April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven men joined the regiment today. [BBR]
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-15] CHARLESTON.; Our Special Correspondence to the 11th.
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		<title>April 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
April 14 1863
Dearest Mother,
Annie received your note this morning, and showed it to me. I am very glad, of course, that you feel perfectly satisfied about our marriage. She and I agree that it is much better to have it as quiet as possible. If it were to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 12-13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-04-12] CHARLESTON.; Further Rebel Reports of the Bombardment of Sumter.
 [1863-04-13] CHARLESTON.; Our Own Accounts of the Attack On Fort Sumter.
 [1863-04-13] The Naval Attack on Fort Sumter.
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		<title>April 11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  Gooding &#8217;s seventh letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, April 13, 1863[OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 11
Messrs. Editors.
â€”Since my last weekly epistle, we have received 315 recruits, making the total number 614, and more expected daily. The ground about the barracks has dried enough now to make walking quite a pleasure. Our company have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Boston [BCF]
April 8,1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note, enclosing Uncle George&#8217;s, arrived to-day. I hope you will get over your idea that I was so annoyed with your letter. I knew very well that you would not be in favour of our marrying now, and was not disappointed or annoyed. I assure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
April 7 1863
Dearest Mother,
I didn&#8217;t mean to worry you by what I said of our being sent away suddenly. I really thought you knew the officers of coloured regiments were supposed to be in rather a ticklish situation, if caught by the Rebelsâ€”and it was not any feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-04-05] More Colored Recruits.
 [1863-04-05] Slavery in Maryland.; A LETTER FROM POSTMASTER-GENERAL BLAIR.
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		<title>April 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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From the Massachusetts Hist. Soc. collection

Henry F. Steward enlisted today as a sergeant in Company E.
Another recruiting exhortation by Douglass, published the April issue of Douglass&#8217; Monthly:
WHY SHOULD A COLORED MAN ENLIST?
This question has been repeatedly put to us while raising men for the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the past five weeks, and perhaps we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 3, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gooding &#8217;s sixth letter to the Mercury and a letter from Shaw to his father:
[Mercury, April 6, 1863][OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 3
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”The 54th progresses daily. This week past the men who have been in camp the longest time have been practicing in the manual of arms. It really makes one&#8217;s heart pulsate with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 2, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his brother-in-law George Curtis (married to Shaw&#8217;s sister Anna), and to his father:
Readville [BCF]
April 2/63
Dear George,
Your letter of the 31 March reached me yesterday. I have already seen Mr. Guerrier several times. I liked him very well, but didn&#8217;t think him one of the best on our list of applicants. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 1, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second letter from Stephens and a letter from Shaw to his mother:
Philadelphia, [VT]
April 1,1863.
Mr. Editor.
â€”One of the most impudent assumptions of authority and a long string of the basest misrepresentations have been perpetuated by a number of white men under the leadership of one Frishmuth, an illiterate German, on the people of the State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 31, 1863</title>
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Robert Gould Shaw officially joined the regiment today, as a Major.  He was promoted to Colonel of the regiment on April 17, 1863.
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 [1863-03-31] THE EXPECTED ATTACK ON CHARLESTON.
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		<title>March 30, 1863</title>
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Luis F. Emilio joined Company E of the regiment today as a second lieutenant.  He became Captain of Company E on May 23, 1863.
 Gooding &#8217;s fifth letter to the Mercury, and a letter from Shaw to his father:
[Mercury, March 31, 1863]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 30
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”As the week begins anew, I have condensed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 29, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-one men joined the regiment today. [BBR] 

This picture shows the camp at Readville during the spring of 1863 while the 54th was training there.  On the left is an unknown private, on the right is Surgeon Lincoln Ripley Stone, and in the center is First Lieutenant Garth Wilkinson (Wilky) James, younger brother of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 28, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight men joined the regiment today. [BBR] 
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		<title>March 27, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
March 27,1863
Dear Mother,
Annie and I got to Boston last evening. Will you please tell me exactly what you think of our being married before I go away? I want to have your opinion about it, and Father&#8217;s too. Please ask him to write me what he thinks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 26, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four men joined the regiment today. [BBR] 
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		<title>March 25, 1863</title>
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Lewis Henry Douglass, the oldest son of Frederick Douglass, joined Company F of the regiment on this day.  He became Sergeant-Major of the regiment on April 23, 1863.
A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
March 25 1863
Dear Mother,
I have received two notes from you, one about our course of conduct at Aunt Mary&#8217;s, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 24, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s fourth letter to the New Bedford Mercury:
[Mercury, March 24, 1863][OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 21
Messrs. Editors:&#8211;
The glorious 54th (that is to be) is getting onÂ nicely, there being now in camp 368 men, two companies, A and B,Â being full, and C and D wanting a few more men to fill them up, whichÂ can easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse, and a letter from Governor John A. Andrew:
Readeville [BCF]
March 23,1863
My dear Charley,
I received yours of the 19th today, and was very glad to hear your account of the review of 12th Corps, by Hooker. I have been expecting it for some time, as you said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 22, 1863</title>
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 [1863-03-22] INTERESTING FROM PORT ROYAL; Operations of the Negro Troops in Florida. JACKSONVILLE RECAPTURED BY THEM. 
 [1863-03-22] Barbarity of the Rebels.
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		<title>March 21, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recruiting speech by Frederick Douglass, and a letter from Shaw to his father:

A speech first given by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY on March 2, 1863, and later published in Douglassâ€™s Monthly on March 21, 1863.  Douglass recruited over 100 men for the regiment, including two of his sons, Lewis and Charles.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 20, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One man enrolled in the regiment today.[BBR] 
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		<title>March 19, 1863</title>
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 [1863-03-19] DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH.; Our Port Royal Correspondence. The Preparations for the Attack on Charleston Nearly Completed&#8230;
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		<title>March 18, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[George E. Stephens enlisted in Company B on April 30, 1863, and wrote regular letters as a war correspondent to the New York Weekly Anglo-African.  This letter â€”Â a response to a book reviewÂ â€”Â Â was written the month before he enlisted.
Philadelphia
March 18,1863.
Mr. Editor
â€”I was not a little surprised at your Boston correspondent&#8217;s, G. L. R/s, severe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 17, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, one to his mother and one to his fiance.
Readville [BCF]
March 17,1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note of Sunday reached me to-day. I am sorry it was a mistake about your visit to Boston, though I was astonished at there being any thought of your leaving Anna just now.
I had a pleasant time at Lenox. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 16, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen men joined the regiment today.[BBR] 
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		<title>March 15, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third letter from  Gooding to the Mercury
[Mercury, March 18, 1863][OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 15
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”Presuming a few lines from this locality would prove interesting to some of your many readers, I have taken upon myself the task of penning them. Among the men in this camp the New Bedford men stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 14, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his fiance:
Boston[BCF]
March 14,1863
My Dear Annie,
Your yesterday&#8217;s letters reached me this morning, and gave me more pleasure than I can tell you.
I find that Mother is not coming to Boston in a fortnight; so please don&#8217;t change your mind, but come on the 21st. I will go up and meet you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 13, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-03-13] FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.; Negro Pickets on the Rebel Side of the Rappahannock.
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		<title>March 12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Boston [BCF]
March 12,1863
My dear Charley,
I received your note enclosing Brangle&#8217;s bill &#38; send you now (8) Eight dolls.
We are getting on swimmingly, having near 250 men in camp. My Officers too are pretty good, some of them excellent.
I came down from Lenox last night, where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eighteen men joined the regiment today. [BBR] 
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		<title>March 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio [BBR] describes the support for the regiment among Massachusetts residents:
In consequence of the cold weather there was some suffering in the regimental camp. When this became known, a meeting was held at a private residence on March 10, and a committee of six ladies and four gentlemen was appointed to procure comforts, necessities, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight men joined the regiment today.[BBR] 
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		<title>March 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-03-08] Charleston and its Defences
 [1863-03-08] Organization of Colored Soldiers.
 [1863-03-08] &#8220;Men of Color, To Arms.&#8221;; A CALL FROM FRED. DOUGLASS. 
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		<title>March 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>March 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s second letter to the Mercury:
[Mercury, March 7, 1863]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 6
Messrs. Editors: â€”Immediately upon our arrival here on Wednesday afternoon, we marched to the barracks, where we found a nice warm fire and a good supper in readiness for us. During the evening the men were all supplied with uniforms, and now they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-03-05] The Anti-Slavery Demonstrations.
 [1863-03-05] Compensated Emancipation&#8211;The Condition of Missouri. 

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		<title>March 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his father and to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Readville [BCF]
March 4,1863
Dear Father,
I have just received yours of the 3d inst. Governor Andrew says that all Colonel Higginson&#8217;s men, and the Colonel himself, wish to get into the regular United States uniform; and strongly advises our sticking to it. We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Henry Gooding enlisted in Company C of the reginment on February 14, 1863, and wrote regular letters as a war correspondent to the New Bedford Mercury.  This is his first letter:
[Mercury, March 3, 1863]
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”As the time draws near for the departure of the men Capt. Grace has recruited, for camp, and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Private Alexander H. Johnson joined the regiment on 2 March 1863.
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		<title>March 1, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-03-01] Negro Soldiers.; A PRIVATE LETTER FROM GEN. HUNTER. THE COLORED REGIMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS.
 [1863-03-01] The Confiscation Act in Tennessee.; IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION BY GOV. JOHNSON.
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		<title>February 27-28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen men joined the regiment on the 27th and 28th of February, 1863.
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		<title>February 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his sister and to his father:
Readville [BCF]
Feb. 25,1863
Dear Effie,
I got your Sunday&#8217;s letter last night. I have not seen Colonel Lowell since, but will deliver your message at first opportunity. We have forty Darks out here now, and expect some more from New YorkÂ and New Bedford in a day or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse, and to his father:
Boston [BCF]
February 24,1863
My dear Charley,
I thought I would write to you again this morning to tell you what Lowell says of the battle of Antietam. Hooker&#8217;s &#38; Mansfield&#8217;s attack on the right was intended only for a feintâ€”and Burnside&#8217;s was to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his fiance:
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 23, (Monday) 1863
Dearest Annie,
We have opened the camp at Readville, got the barracks in good order, and sent twenty-seven men out there. I have a good quartermaster, who has got all the necessary stores out there, and seems to be attending to his business in the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio [BBR] quotes from a speech of Frederick Douglass which was published in Douglass&#8217;s monthly The North Star:
&#8230; We can get at the throat of treason and slavery through the State of Massachusetts. She was first in the War of Independence ; first to break the chains of her slaves ; first to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Boston [BCF]
February 21,1863
My dear Charley,
Your letter with enclosures reached me yesterday. I am much obliged to you for attending to those matters. Do I owe you anything? Please let me know as soon as possible. I think Johnson&#8217;s bill was a little more than I supposed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his mother and to a cousin:
Boston [BCF] 
Feby 20 1863
Dear Mother,
You have probably been looking for a letter from me for some days, but I have had so much to do that I couldn&#8217;t write. My interviews with the Govr have been very satisfactoryÂ â€”Â and we are getting along better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entry from Emilio [BBR] describing the early recruiting efforts:
Much the larger number of recruits were obtained through the organization and by the means which will now be described. About February 15, Governor Andrew appointed a committee to superintend the raising of recruits for the colored regiment, consisting of George L. Stearns, Amos A. Lawrence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letters from Shaw to his father and to his fiance:
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 18,1863
Dear Father,
Will you please inquire of Judge Emerson where his son Charles is to be found, and whether he would take a First Lieutenancy in the coloured regiment. I liked what I saw of him at college very much, and am very anxious to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Notably, on this day William H. Carney joined the regiment. Â He would become the first African-American to receive the country&#8217;s Medal of Honor, in recognition of his valor during the assault on Fort Wagner.
Emilio observed that there were strong disincentives directed against both the soldiers and officers of the regiment [BBR,6-7]:
At the time a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 16, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and to his Father; description of initial recruiting from Emilio [BBR 9,10]; one of the recruiting ads.
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 16,1863, Monday
Dearest Annie,
I arrived here yesterday morning, after a very uncomfortable night in the sleeping-car. I have been at work all day, looking over papers with Hallowell, and talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio wrote  [BBR,6]:
Captain Shaw arrived in Boston on February 15, and at once assumed the duties of his position. Captain Hallowell was already there, daily engaged in the executive business of the new organization; and about the middle ofÂ February, his brother, Edward N. Hallowell, who had served as a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 9-14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Henry Gooding enrolled in the regiment on 14 February in New Bedford.  His war correspondence to the New Bedford Mercury begins on March 3, 1863.  A total of 24 men enrolled in the regiment from the 9th to the 14th.
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[1863-02-09] Border State Loyalty.

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		<title>February 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and to his Father. Â By now he has decided to accept Governor Andrew&#8217;s offer of command of the regiment.
Stafford C.H.,Va. [BCF]
Feb. 8,1863
Dear Annie,
You know by this time, perhaps, that I have changed my mind about the black regiment. After Father left, I began to think I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first person enrolled in the regiment was John Whittier Messer Appleton, who was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant today.  He became Captain of Company A on April 14, 1863, and was promoted to Major on July 18, even though wounded in the assault on Ft. Wagner.  Appleton began vigorously recruiting for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 5-6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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[1863-02-05] OUR FORTRESS MONROE LETTER.; Enlistment of Negro Soldiers for the Massachusetts Contingent
[1863-02-06] Conservatives and Destructives The Real Test.
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		<title>February 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Â Shaw to his fiance Annie. Â Here he tells her that he (initially) turned down Governor Andrew&#8217;s offer
.
Stafford Court-House, Va. [BCF]
Feb. 4,1863
My Dear Annie,
Your two letters, of the 25th and 29th of January, have reached me at last, and I was glad enough to get them. By this time you are on your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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[1863-02-03] IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON.; Passage of the Negro Soldier Bill in the House
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		<title>January 31-February 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio provided ([BBR] p.5) this description of Shaw:
Francis G. Shaw himself took the formal proffer to his son, then in Virginia. After due deliberation, Captain Shaw, on February 6, telegraphed his acceptance.
Robert Gould Shaw &#8230;was born Oct. 10, 1837, in Boston, was carefully educated at home and abroad in his earlier years, and admitted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Governor Andrew decided to offer theÂ colonelcy of the 54th to (then) Captain R.G. Shaw, and wrote to Shaw&#8217;s father to enlist his aid in convincing Shaw to accept the commision; this is followed by the Governor&#8217;s letter to Shaw himself:
BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1863.
FRANCIS G. SHAW, Esq., Staten Island, N. Y.
DEAR SIR,
â€”As you may have seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 27-29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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[1863-01-29] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES&#8230;bill authorizing the employ of soldiers of African descent&#8230;
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		<title>January 26, 1863: Authorization of the 54th</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Emilio [BBR,p 2]):
John A. Andrew, the war Governor of Massachusetts,Â very early advocated the enlistment of colored men to aidÂ in suppressing the Rebellion. The General GovernmentÂ having at last adopted this policy, he visited Washington in January, 1863, and as the result of a conferenceÂ with Secretary Stanton, received the following order,Â under which the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts VolunteerÂ Infantry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and his sister Effie:
Stafford C. H. [BCF]
Jan. 25,1863
Dear Annie,
I found your letter of the 14th here, last night, when we arrived. Please do not think of not sending me a letter, because you fancy it stupid; for they always give me a great deal of pleasure. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Washington, D.C. [BCF]
Jan. 23,1863
Dear Mother,
We arrived here at, or about 8 o&#8217;clock this morning, and find we can&#8217;t get away until to-morrow morning.  We were an hour and a half too early last evening, as the train left at 7 1/2 instead of 6. It was provoking to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 11-22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:

[1863-01-11]Stopping the Slavery Agitation.

[1863-01-12]CONGRESS.

[1863-01-13]Kentucky and Emancipation.

[1863-01-15]EMANCIPATION MEETINGS IN ENGLAND.; THE WORKINGMEN OF MANCHESTER.

[1863-01-20]HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

[1863-01-21]Another Emancipation Jubilee.

[1863-01-22]AMEN TO THE PROCLAMATION.; Wendell Phillips&#8217; Oration at the Cooper Institute. The Liberation and Arming of the Slave the Salvation of the Republic.

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		<title>January 10, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his fiance Annie:
Fairfax Station, Va. [BCF]
Jan. 10,1863
Dear Annie,
Your letter of the 5th inst., enclosing the vignette, came last night. At first IÂ thought the latter was not good at all, but now I begin to like it, and am veryÂ glad indeed to have it. I have noticed that very often you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:

[1863-01-09]The Employment of Enfranchised Negros as Soldiers

[1863-01-09b]Interesting From Port Royal.
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		<title>January 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Gould Shaw had been serving in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for almost two years, and would become the commander of the newly forming 54th Massachusetts in several months:

Fairfax Station [BCF]
Jan. 8,1863
Dearest Mother,
On the outside of my last letter to you I mentioned having received yours enclosing one from Uncle Henry; we have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 3-7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
[1863-01-03] Emancipation.  President Lincolnâ€™s Proclamation
[1863-01-04] Colored Jubilee in Brooklyn
[1863-01-05] Rebel Murder of Blacks
[1863-01-06] The Presidentâ€™s Proclamation
[1863-01-06] The Edict of Emancipation
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		<title>January 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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First Lieutenant Luis F. Emilio became the Captain of Company E of the 54th Massachusetts on May 27, 1863.  He was the only surviving field officer not incapacitated with wounds after the assault on Fort Wagner and became the Regiment&#8217;s acting commander.   He fought through the entire war,  until mustering out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 1, 1863: Final Emancipation Proclamation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1863 opened with the issuance of the Final Emancipation Proclamation on New Year&#8217;s Day:

By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prologue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Carney]]></category>

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The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first Civil War Union regiment to be composed of enlisted men drawn from the free blacks of the North. Â It as made possible by the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863, and was initially the subject of bitter controversy. Â However, the extraordinary performance and [...]]]></description>
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