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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; 2nd Massachusetts</title>
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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 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>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>March 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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 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>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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