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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; bombardment of Ft Sumter</title>
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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 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 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>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>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 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>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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