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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; 55th Massachusetts</title>
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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>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 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 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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