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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; 54th Massachusetts</title>
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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 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 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>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 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 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 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 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 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 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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 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 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 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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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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 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 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 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>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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		<title>June 3, 1863</title>
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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>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:
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 [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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		<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 24, 1863</title>
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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 18, 1863</title>
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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 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 1, 1863</title>
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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 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>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>February 19, 1863</title>
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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 17, 1863</title>
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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 8, 1863</title>
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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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		<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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[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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		<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
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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>January 30, 1863</title>
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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 26, 1863: Authorization of the 54th</title>
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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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